staff software engineer

Job Title – Staff Software Engineer

Job Location - Bangalore

Role Description -

Our Digital and eCommerce division is looking to transform the Digital and eCommerce technology engine for Merck. 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 Merck’s 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
• Demonstrate ownership for design of one or more applications.
  
  

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  
  

• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Recent experience in Java
• Proficient in building scalable Microservices and event driven architecture.
• Experience in unit test frameworks.
• Ability to provide solutions based on business requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe to collect the requirements and validate the solutioning.
• Ability to work with global teams and a flexible work schedule.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills and be customer-centric.
• Excellent communication 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, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Spring, Spring Boot,
• Experience developing eCommerce systems – especially B2B eCommerce – is a plus.
• Recommend improvements and drive alignment across teams