Staff Software Engineer - Java/ElasticSearch (8-15 yrs)

Role Description :

Our Digital and eCommerce division is looking to transform the Digital and eCommerce technology engine for the organisation. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a leadership role on a product team to design and build new features and components in our evolving platform, helping to embrace modern principles like microservices and event driven architectures.

ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY :

The Digital and eCommerce team currently operates several B2B websites and direct digital sales channels via a globally deployed cloud-based platform that are a growth engine for the life science business. We provide a comprehensive catalog of all products, enabling our customers to find products and purchase products as well as get detailed scientific information on those products.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

- Work as part of an Agile development team, taking ownership for one or more services

- Provides leadership to the Agile Development team, driving technical designs to support business goals

- Ensuring the entire team exemplifies excellence in design, code, test and operation

- A willingness to lead by example - embracing change and foster a Growth and Learning culture on the team

- Mentoring team members through code review, design reviews

- Taking a lead role, working with product owners to help refine the backlog, breaking down features and epics into executable stories

- Have a high quality software mindset - making sure that the code you write works

QUALIFICATIONS :

Education :

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Mandatory Skills :

- 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

- Recent experience in Java, Kotlin, ElasticSearch, Spring, Spring Boot

- Experience in developing REST services.

- Experience in unit test frameworks.

- Ability to provide solutions based on business requirements.

- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

- Ability to work with global teams and a flexible work schedule.

- Must have excellent problem-solving skills and be customer-centric.

- Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with Microservices, CI/CD, Event Oriented Architectures and Distributed Systems

- Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Amazon Web Services, etc.)

- Experience leading product oriented engineering development teams is a plus

- Familiarity with web technologies (e,g,, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), data manipulation (e.g., SQL), and version control systems (e.g., GitHub)

- Familiarity with DevOps practices/principles, Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the product development lifecycle

- Familiarity with modern web APIs and full stack frameworks.

- Experience with Java, Google Analytics, BigQuery, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, in memory caching are a plus

- Experience developing eCommerce systems - especially B2B eCommerce - is a plus.