About this role
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:970.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="4"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:970.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color:white"><img border="0" src="https://career.bayer.com/sites/g/files/kmftyc1291/files/Internal%20Job%20Postings.jpg"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"> <p align="justify"> </p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-size:28.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Lead Software Engineer (Solution Design)</b></span> </span></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a part of Bayer's Customer Engagement Team. You will work on improving our 'System and Data Integration Capabilities'</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Key Tasks & Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Own end-to-end solution design with a strong API focus, from initial concept through architecture decisions to implementation guidance, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Collaborate closely with enterprise architects and drive solution proposals forward by presenting to architecture boards, securing stakeholder buy-in, and shepherding designs from approval through delivery.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Drive stakeholder alignment across product, platform, security, and business functions; act as the bridge between the team and the wider organization on strategic technical developments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Champion the creation and usage of API templates, SDKs, reusable services, and the Internal Developer Platform (Backstage) to support the Pharma Commercial.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lead the adoption of Composable Architecture principles across Pharma Commercial and guide engineers to apply them effectively.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Define and enforce team-based standards for design patterns, programming tools, and techniques; select appropriate methods and ensure their effective application.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Review systems designs of our product squads to ensure appropriate technology selection, efficient use of resources, and effective integration across multiple systems and technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Validate solution approaches through appropriate prototyping methods, choosing the most suitable technique for each context.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Own delivery outcomes in a high-performing team, balancing quality and time-to-market by crafting pragmatic compromise solutions when constraints demand trade-offs.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Leverage AI coding assistants effectively and promote their productive adoption within the team.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Design and govern reusable components (APIs, SDKs, templates) that are discoverable, self-describing, and ready for consumption by AI coding assistants and autonomous agents—with clear contracts, machine-readable metadata, and up-to-date documentation.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mentor and work closely with less experienced colleagues, fostering growth and capability building within the team.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Qualifications & Competencies</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">7+ years of experience as a software engineer.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Established and maintained development standards (branching strategies, PR workflows, platform tooling) adopted across multiple teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Presented solution designs and technical proposals to architecture boards, governance forums, or business stakeholders, and incorporated their feedback into final designs.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Owned API or platform standards across multiple teams, with evidence of cross-team uptake (e.g. shared templates, SDKs, or design patterns in production use).</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Co-authored or reviewed architecture decision records (ADRs) in collaboration with enterprise architects, aligning solution designs with enterprise-wide standards and technology roadmaps.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Navigated cross-team dependencies to deliver integrated solutions end-to-end, documented through design artifacts, decision logs, or delivery retrospectives.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent experience with component design as part of Composable Architecture principles like MACH, especially with an API-first and event driven integration strategy.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent experience working in agile teams using Scrum or Kanban.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent experience in programming with Python and TypeScript (Node.js) and at least one other, strongly typed, compiled language like C#, Java, or Kotlin; experience with other languages is a plus.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent experience with software version control using Git and collaborative development via GitHub.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Excellent experience in developing RESTful APIs, API specification, contract design and documentation using OpenAPI and Swagger.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Good knowledge of database and integration technologies for software development, with focus on PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift and noSQL.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Good knowledge of test-driven development using testing frameworks and API test methodologies.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Good experience developing streaming integration and messaging solutions with Kafka and Cloud Messaging Queues and integrating them into orchestration workflows using solutions like Apache Airflow.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Good knowledge of monitoring and observability solutions like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Amazon CloudWatch.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization and orchestration solutions like Docker and Kubernetes.</span></li> <li style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Knowledge of static analysis tools like SonarQube and CodeQL.</span></li> </ul><table style="width:970.0px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"><strong><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">YOUR APPLICATION</span></span></strong></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table style="width:970.0px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bayer welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bayer offers the possibility of working in a hybrid model. We know how important work-life balance is, so our employees can work from home, from the office or combine both work environments. The possibilities of using the hybrid model are each time discussed with the manager.</span></span><br>Bayer respects and applies the Whistleblower Act in Poland.</p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top" colspan="4"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Location:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:200.0px" colspan="3" rowspan="1"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px">Poland : Mazowieckie : Warszawa </span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Division:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px" colspan="3" rowspan="1">PH CE</td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><strong>Reference Code:</strong></span></span></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;width:150.0px" colspan="2" rowspan="1">872533 </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Location:</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Poland : Mazowieckie : Warszawa</span></span> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Division:</strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0px">PH CE</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Reference Code:</strong> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">872533</span></span> </p>