Principal Software Engineer, Web

Position Overview: 

The Digital Farming Solutions (DFS) division of Bayer has a mission to transform agriculture and drive a more sustainable food system by helping the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity and crop yield with digital tools.  We collect, process, and analyze vast amounts of agronomic data using our Fieldview Platform and suite of applications and connected devices to help our growers realize the full potential of their farmable land. We are looking for a dedicated web architect to help design and build our next generation of web applications. 

Digital Farming Solutions at Bayer is seeking a Principal Web Engineer to join our Enterprise Architecture team.  As a senior technical leader in our Fieldview engineering organization, you will guide the architecture and design of the Climate FieldView Platform. You will be accountable for the design, technical stewardship of existing and next-generation web applications and related integrations. You will drive the web architecture that facilitates the multiple experiences needed by growers, dealers and internal customers to enable our vision. This position offers the chance to work with widely used farming software tools and contribute to increasing agricultural productivity sustainably. If you are interested in innovation and contributing to building a sustainable business, Bayer invites you to apply. 

You are ideal for this role if you …  

• Are a self-starter who can contribute as a member of a high-functioning, agile, independent, and vertically integrated, teams  

• Enjoy collaborating with other architects to create a vision where all the pieces of the software ecosystem fit together and provide value to Bayer and our customers 

• Can design and architect well factored, extensible and performant web applications considering the broader architecture of the software ecosystem 

• Passionate about users experience and building engaging, performant and secure user interfaces 

• Build systems that are fault tolerant and resilient, can recover from events with no loss of data, and satisfy service-level objectives with ease  

• Work in an open and inclusive way, empowering team members to own their portion of the design while still driving excellence 

• Enjoys sharing knowledge, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to the overall skill development and quality improvement of the entire team 

• Can produce well-written, understandable, and technically correct system specifications  

• Are extremely proficient with modern web programming tools, techniques and languages   

• Can read, modify, and constructively review other People’s Code  

• Handle ambiguity with grace and excitement 

What You Will Do: 

• Driving the overall front end architecture for FieldView Web and DFS more generally, globally.  

• Be on the DFS Enterprise Architecture team and collaborating with other Global Principal Engineers. 

• Collaborating with Product, UI/UX and Web engineers to build  

Basic Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of software development experience 

• 4+ years of experience designing, architecting and deploying large scale web applications 

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills 

• Experience building web applications with modern JavaScript based web programming tools and techniques (React, Vue, Angular...). We use React 

• Experience with JavaScript 

• Experience with TypeScript 

• Experience with modern CSS 

• Experience with git or other distributed version control systems 

• Experience setting up full CI/CD pipelines for web applications 

• Experience building and debugging apps on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, and mobile browsers) 

• Experience with server-side JavaScript (Node.js) and GraphQL 

• Interest in working with a team that values testing 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with JavaScript language features (ES6+, Promises) 

• Experience performance tuning JavaScript/browser applications 

• Experience designing single-page application 

• Experience working with Product and Design to ship ground-breaking features 

• Experience collaborating with a cross-skill architecture team do design and architect 

• Champion of web standards, accessibility, and modern web development industry standards 

• Experience with testing frameworks and tools like Cypress, Jest 

• Experience with React Native 

• Experience with micro frontends for web applications 

• Interest in being a technical leader who has influence well beyond the web application, collaboratively driving the architectural vision of DFS 

What We Offer:   

Our teams are composed of industry experts, top scientists, and talented engineers. The environment is engaging with dozens of specialties coming together to provide the best possible products and experiences for our customers. 

We provide competitive salaries and some of the best perks in the industry, including: 

• Superb medical, dental, vision, life, disability benefits, and a 401k matching program 

• Encouragement to get out of the office and into the field with agents and farmers to see first-hand how our products are being used 

• We take part and offer various workshops, conferences, meet-up groups, tech-talks, and hackathons to encourage participation and growth in both community involvement and career development 

We also hinge our cultural DNA on these five values: 

• Inspire one another 

• Innovate in all we do 

• Leave a mark on the world 

• Find the possible in the impossible 

• Be direct and transparent 

DFS aims to create a welcoming and collaborative environment for our employees in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented and celebrated.  

O QUE MAIS VOCÊ ENCONTRA POR AQUI: 

Na Bayer estabelecemos nossos benefícios em três pilares essenciais, que se integram e se convergem para promover a qualidade de vida e o bem-estar dos nossos colaboradores. 

• Assistência Médica   

• Assistência Odontológica  

• Subsídio medicamentos   

• GymPass 

• Conte Comigo - Assistência psicológica, dependência química, consultoria jurídica e financeira  

• Bem Nascer – um pacote recheado de benefícios exclusivos para novos papais e mamães, como por exemplo: uma cadeirinha veicular para garantir a segurança do bebê, Livro Personalizado “Enquanto eu Nascia”, acompanhamento da saúde da mamãe e do bebê durante a gravidez, isenção de coparticipação, encontro com pais e gestantes, licença maternidade e paternidades estendida, auxílio creche, Bepantol baby, dentre outros. 

• Previdência Privada - Veículo de poupança de longo prazo que oferece 200% de contrapartida, carteira de empréstimos competitiva e promoção do bem-estar financeiro 

• Seguro de Vida  

• CoopBayer - Cooperativa que tem como objetivo a educação financeira dos colaboradores  

• *Short Friday e Escala de pontes e feriados  

• Flexibilização de férias (dentro do que é previsto na legislação) 

• **Clube Bayer - Facilidades do clube: churrasqueira, salão de jogos, piscina, academia, salão de festas e quadra de futebol) 

• *Home Office   

• *Flex Time  

*Pode haver alguma diferença no pacote de benefícios de acordo com o cargo e localidade. 

*Mediante associação do colaborador.