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The world's farmers make high-stakes decisions every season - and the platforms built by Digital Farming Solutions Engineering are what makes those decisions smarter. As a Senior Engineer, your role is to ensure those platforms are architected for scale, reliability, and the demands of AI and machine learning at a global level. 

You will build and deliver critical platform capabilities that power digital agriculture at global scale - translating complex agricultural challenges into scalable, production-grade systems. You will own meaningful technical problems from design through delivery, ensuring solutions are reliable, observable, and built to last, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and engineering partners to turn data, algorithms, and cloud capabilities into real outcomes for farmers. Along the way, you will raise the bar for engineering quality - contributing to continuous improvement, mentoring others, and growing your impact as a technical leader within and across teams. 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

The primary responsibilities of this role are to:  

• Build a collaborative atmosphere to create solutions to complex problems with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.  

• Drive continuous improvement in system implementation and operational excellence, with a focus on quality, scalability, observability, and maintainability.  

• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement  

• Ensure system security and data privacy compliance.  

• Stay current with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating and integrating new tools and methodologies as appropriate.  

• Build a culture of empathy for the customer and accountability to make a difference for the world's farmers  

• Work with data ranging from on farm collected precision agriculture data to remote sensed satellite imagery  

• Implement efficient algorithms and services for diverse and challenging precision agriculture applications  

• Build your knowledge and contribute your ideas through interactive product design sessions, hackathons, and on-farm opportunities. 

WHO YOU ARE 

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following: 

Required: 

• BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent combination of education and experience  

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development  

• Strong experience with Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms  

• Proven history of ability to quickly learn new skills and technologies  

• Experience with developing highly scalable cloud based microservices and data pipelines using container technologies (e.g., Docker)  

• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to engineering and non-engineering audiences  

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language (e.g., Java, Python)  

• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores including hands on experience with SQL.  

• Proficiency with managing CICD pipelines (e.g., GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions) 

Preferred: 

• Demonstrated leadership skills, with experience in mentoring and guiding junior engineers.  

• High bar for quality as demonstrated by code reviews, documentation, unit and integration testing  

• Strong understanding of at least one containerization technology (e.g., Docker)  

• Strong understanding of multiple AWS capabilities (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, etc.).   

• Experience using observability techniques to drive support and improvements of systems  

• Experience with event driven architectures using messaging middleware (SQS, JMS, etc.) 

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $104k-156k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. 

This posting will be available for application until at least 6/30/26.