Staff Engineer

 

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.

 

Staff Engineer 

 

The Digital Farming Solutions (DFS) division of Bayer has a mission to transform agriculture and drive a more sustainable food system by helping the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity and crop yield with digital tools. Within DFS, the Digital Value Chain Solutions enterprise leverages a strategic partnership with Microsoft to create Business-to-Business digital services that unlock value across the agri-food ecosystem. The Digital Value Chain Solutions enterprise is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive customer-focused prototyping and full-stack software development of digital solutions, enabling value creation across the agri-food value chain. 

 

You are ideal for this role if you: 

• Are a self-starter who can contribute as a member of a high-functioning, agile, and independent team 

• Enjoy collaborating with other architects to create a vision where all the pieces of the software ecosystem fit together and provide value to Bayer and our B2B customers 

• Can design and architect well-factored, extensible, and performant software, considering the broader architecture of the ecosystem 

• Passionate about user experience and building outcome-focused solutions 

• Build systems that are fault-tolerant and resilient, can recover from events with no loss of data, and satisfy service-level objectives with ease 

• Work in an open and inclusive way, empowering team members to own their portion of the design while still driving excellence 

• Enjoys sharing knowledge, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to the overall skill development and quality improvement of the entire team 

• Can produce well-written, understandable, and technically correct system specifications 

• Can read, modify, and constructively review other People’s Code 

• Handle ambiguity with grace and excitement 

 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

The primary responsibilities of this role are to: 

• Collaborate with business leads to define customer challenges, ideate solutions, define technical requirements, and shape MVP solutions. 

• Rapidly prototype and iterate on digital products using React (frontend) and Python (backend). 

• Lead full-stack feature development, including cloud infrastructure using Azure and Terraform. 

• Build and scale RESTful APIs and backend services. 

• Integrate AI tools (e.g., LLMs, Azure AI) and third-party services where relevant. 

• Manage trade-offs between functionality, speed, and scalability in early-stage builds. 

  

WHO YOU ARE 

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following: 

 

Required: 

• 10+ years (MS 8+ or PhD 6+) of hands-on experience in software development 

• Full-stack development experience with React, Python, and/or Java. 

• Cloud deployment experience with Azure (required); AWS is a plus. 

• Infrastructure-as-code proficiency with Terraform. 

• Experience developing RESTful APIs and backend services. 

• Strong grasp of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD and Git. 

• Familiarity with Azure AI services or LLMs 

• Experience with AI agent