Principal Software Engineer

Company Description

About Eurofins – the global leader in bio-analysis

Eurofins is Testing for Life. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

With over 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of a wide range of products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services and in-vitro diagnostic products.

Eurofins companies’ broad range of services are important for the health and safety of people and our planet. The ongoing investment to become fully digital and maintain the best network of state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment supports our objective to provide our customers with high-quality services, innovative solutions and accurate results in the best possible turnaround time (TAT). Eurofins companies are well positioned to support clients’ increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the increasing demands of regulatory authorities as well as the evolving requirements of healthcare practitioners around the world.

Eurofins has grown very strongly since its inception and its strategy is to continue expanding its technology portfolio and its geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical solutions.

Shares in Eurofins Scientific are listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN FR0014000MR3, Reuters EUFI.PA, Bloomberg ERF FP).

Job Description

TITLE: eCommerce Principal engineer

REPORTING TO: Manager

WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore, India

The Role:  The position shall manage the group of developers technically in Dublin, to develop one or more high quality eCommerce products (Microsoft based tech stack) and related mobile application for the Primary Eurofins eCommerce Portal. Product is developed in coordination with the India & Europe Team.

Responsibilities: The role has ultimate responsibility for the assigned project(s) and manages all aspects of delivery including definition, planning, monitoring, customer satisfaction and others aspects of an agile product development. This role is more of a hands-on Development Manager who will have the total accountability and responsibility for delivering with highest quality (minimum defect leakage and density) and within the said cost/time.

• Some of the responsibilities are listed below; however these are not the exhaustive set of responsibilities.
•  Deliver high quality shippable product as per the scope of the program. Should ensure that the quality is measured, monitored and improved with every release.
• Manage team of Developers technically, and ensure that all best practices of software engineering is implemented.
•  Oversee planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
•  Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.
•  Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to Sr. management
•  Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Experience:

• Overall 8-10 years in experience in IT Application/Software Development field.
• Good and hands-on knowledge of Agile adoption (concept of delivering MVP) is mandatory.
• Good to have handled atleast 2 eCOM or e-Portal development projects including it’s deployment and maintenance. Additional knowledge of delivering multi-platform mobile apps is an advantage.
• Good to have working experience in US, UK or Europe for atleast 2 years (should have stayed onsite for extended period).
• Highly assertive and ability to drive the onsite teams to seek information or clarification.
• Self-Managed and highly independent.
• Healthcare or life science domain will be highly preferred.

Technology skills:

• Strong and proven background in Information Technology.
• Strong working knowledge of .NET, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web Services, WCF Rest and Web API
• Working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS 3, Bootstrap technologies
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Databases
• Working knowledge of ESB or Message Queuing (MSMQ).
• Microservices is an added advantage.

Methodology skills

• AGILE,  TDD, UML

Qualifications

BE Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s degree with the right experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.