Staff Software Engineer

 

Staff Software Engineer (Capabilities Unit) / EF / São Paulo - SP 

     

At Bayer, we work hard to make this company a better place for our employees - and the world a better place for everyone. "Health for all, hunger for none." That's our vision at Bayer. 

At Bayer, Diversity & Inclusion is taken seriously, it is a non-negotiable value, and it is one of the strategic pillars of our organization. We believe that diverse teams foster greater innovation and contribute to a more creative and welcoming work environment, allowing employees to be who they really are and express their full potential.

That's why everyone is welcome at Bayer: men, women, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, transgender, white, black, disabled and from different generations. If you have any diversity markers, feel even more encouraged to apply for this position, we will be very happy to meet you

GET TO KNOW OUR AREA: 

The Capabilities Unit is a vital part of the Customer Experience Platform, owning the delivery of Enterprise capabilities by developing reusable solutions across experiences and markets for Bayer Crop Science.

Join a dynamic Product Team within the Capabilities Unit dedicated to revolutionizing Licensing Management across our global regions We are committed to creating exceptional solutions that enhance customer engagement, retention, and satisfaction. Our dedicated squads are responsible for driving success, owning specific goals and deliverables, and ensuring quality interactions at every touchpoint.

YOUR MISSION WILL BE TO:

Staff Software Engineers are focused on building and coordinating technical direction across teams.  As experts in both technical and domain areas, they work with Software Engineers, Principal Engineers, Product Managers and other digital product functions to set relevant long-term technical goals and drive innovative solutions that will continue to build on Bayer Crops Science's market advantage. They also drive a focus on education and help develop team skillsets to match technical strategy.

• Work as part of an agile development team to build and support applications.
• Work with team and product manager to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in application features.
• Develop applications and services using the right tool for the job.
• Consistently contribute to solving organization-wide problems including shared platforms, libraries, and frameworks.
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with engineering team and product management.
• Champion code quality including unit and integration testing.
• Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features.
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills and those of more junior engineers.
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions.
• Anticipate and address technical and organizational obstacles affecting own team and teams within the domain platform.
• Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within and across teams.
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization.
• Build relationships with key members of partner teams.
• Owns complex problems that span multiple teams.
• Able to clearly communicate the progress of a team and represent technical material at an appropriate level for the audience.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE POSITION?

Must have:

• 8 years experience in solving challenging technical problems in two or more of the following areas:
  • Single page web application development.
  • Unix/Linux environment management.
  • Cloud based continuous delivery and environment management.
  • Mobile application development.
  • Modern architectural principles and practices.
  • Large, distributed system development.
  • Software security.
  • Processing and analyzing large data sets.
• 3 years designing cloud-based software solutions.
• Practical experience and understanding of industry practices, engineering principles, concepts, and standards. 
• Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing).
• Demonstrates capable business insight, strategic mindset, cultivates innovation, drives vision & purpose, and attracts & develops talent leadership competencies and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Portuguese and English (written and spoken).
• Mastery of programming languages, with expertise in Java.
• Proficiency in SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
• Familiarity with CI/CD version control tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD) for effective collaboration and source code change management.
• Advanced knowledge of containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Fargate, Docker) with hands-on experience in their configuration and management.
• Understanding of information security principles and the ability to implement appropriate security measures, such as authentication, authorization, and encryption, to protect data and prevent cyberattacks.
• DevOps and SRE mindset, promoting automation and best practices in observability.

Nice to Have:

• Implementation of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Implementation of advanced monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
• Definition and monitoring of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, ensuring predictability and failure mitigation.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish (written and spoken).

What´s in it for you?

At Bayer we have established our benefits in three essential pillars, which integrate and converge to promote the life quality and well-being of our employees.

• Health Care Plan
• Dental Plan
• Medicines Subsidy
• GymPass
• "Conte Comigo" - Psychological, chemical dependence, legal and financial assistance
• "Bem Nascer" - Health monitoring during pregnancy, no coparticipation in the health care plan, workshop for pregnant women (employees or partner of employees), extended maternity and paternity leave, daycare assistance, Bepantol baby, etc.
• Private Pension Plan – A long term savings vehicle that offers 200% of matching contribution, competitive employee loan portfolio and promotes financial wellbeing
• Life Insurance
• CoopBayer - Cooperative that aims at the financial education and giving credit for employees
• Holidays bridge and holidays regular schedule, occurs all year round, including eve of National Holidays
• Vacations flexibility (within the provisions of the Brazilian legislation)
• **Bayer Country Club – Country Club facilities: Leisure area, game room, swimming pool, gym, party room and football pitch)
• *Working from Home policy 
• *Flex Time and Short Friday

*There may be some difference in the benefits package according to position and location

**It depends on employee association

    Período disponível para candidatura:31/10/25 a 12/11/25Referência: Local:Brasil : São Paulo : São Paulo   Área Funcional:Tecnologia da Informação     Grupo de Contratação:Regular Horário de Trabalho:Administrativo

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