Software Staff Engineer

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Job Description

Digital Platforms & Engineering is Thermo Fisher’s “Software Engineering” center of excellence. We build cloud computing services, products, and Platforms that the scientific community demands—using new technologies with the potential to significantly change lab workflows and facilitate access to powerful data analysis techniques. Our division serves as an extension of Thermo Fisher’s Software R&D teams while improving our responsiveness and attention in enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Thermo Fisher was built to serve society and that sense of purpose will continue to improve innovation and scientific advancement. We encourage diversity in our workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer

We apply industry-standard methodologies to the design, development, and deployment of world-class software products built to demonstrate the power and scalability of the cloud.   

Roles & Responsibilities:   

Purpose:   

The Software Staff Engineer provides software and systems architectural and design leadership to multiple Software Development Scrum Teams delivering Connect Platform & Ecosystem, Customer tenancy, Authorization, and Digital product subscriptions and entitlements. The role is of a Lead Developer motivated to actively contribute to the architecture, design, and development of new features. The person is also expected to perform all aspects of Software Development including programming, system design, code review, design review, unit testing, and integration testing.  In addition to that, the role also demands to lead, empower, mentor, and provide ample guidance to the other team members in technical challenges.   

Responsibilities:    

Staff Engineers, provide software and systems architectural and design leadership to a team of engineers. Design and implement cloud service and software architecture for new products, and extensions to existing products. Be the team’s “go-to” person for architectural, design, and implementation-related questions and provide guidance.  They play an active role in solution analysis of requirements . They can understand, articulate, and challenge the requirements  They guide design activity to other programmers on technical aspects relating to the project.  They proactively look for ways and patterns to continuously automate feature testing with measurable and tangible goals . They are authentic, transparent, and lead by example, holding themselves and others accountable. They inspire, motivate, and collaborate with others 

They anticipate needs and problems while crafting solutions. They are willing to ask difficult questions and try innovative solutions. They greet challenges and change as opportunities. Being a highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “figure out what needs figuring out”, they actively participate in the development community of practices in sharing and learning standard processes, lead initiatives within the community , and are involved in other organization initiatives   

They possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. They effectively document artifacts and processes and then explain them to others 

Candidate Requirement:   

Education: Bachelors in Engineering or Masters in Computer Science with 10+ years of proven experience   

 Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience :   

1) Minimum 10 years experience in Web Application Development using Java/J2EE-related technologies; Expertise in OOAD principles and methodologies   

Extensive experience in Java application development frameworks and technologies: Apache tomcat, Jetty, Juice, Spring, and JSON/XML/Ajax   

2) Strong in programming fields like object-oriented principles, design patterns, data structures and unit testing (TDD using Junit), Domain-driven Design (DDD)   

Minimum 4 years experience in Cloud computing using AWS such as S3, DynamoDB, SNS, SES, EC2   

3) Minimum 4 years experience with databases (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle/NoSQL DB), persistence frameworks, and SQL   

4) Extensive knowledge in handling sophisticated data structures and well-versed in developing multithreading applications.   

5) 3 Years of proven experience with GitHub, Docker, CI/CD frameworks (Jenkins)   

Experience with defining and implementing Non-Functional Requirements (NFR – Security, Performance, Cost and code quality) 

6) Experience in designing and architecting large-scale, highly available distributed software    

7) Committed individual, can connect dots, develop technical talent, and have a high bar on behaviors of the team  

8) Have experience in publishing white papers, part of the IP creation, mentoring and coaching technical talent across multiple teams  

Believe in expertise-based technical leadership and champion continuous learning