Staff Engineer, Software

Job Description

Title: Software Staff Engineer

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division: Pleasanton, CA - Genetic Sciences Division

How will you make an impact?

The candidate is a member of a Software Development Scrum Team. The role is of a Lead Developer motivated to actively participate in the architecture, design, and development of new features. The person is also encouraged to cover all aspects of Software Development, including programming, system design, code review, design review, unit testing, and integration testing. In addition, the role also demands leading, motivating, mentoring, and providing ample guidance to the other team members for technical challenges.

What will you do?

• Provide software and systems architecture along with leadership to a team of engineers. Design and implement services and software architecture for new products and extensions to existing products.
• Collaborate and influence direction and decision-making to deliver quality solutions.
• Able to understand, articulate, and challenge the requirements.
• Work effectively and collaboratively with the team members to deliver artifacts related to the design of the solution.
• Responsible for leading the integrity of technical work on significant concurrent projects.
• Is authentic, open, and leads by example, holding self and others accountable. Inspires, motivates, and collaborates with others.
• Anticipates needs and problems while crafting solutions. Is willing to ask difficult questions and take risks. Greets challenge and change as an opportunity.
• A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and "figure out what needs figuring out."
• Actively participates in the development community of practices in sharing and learning standard methodologies, leads initiatives within the community, and is involved in other organization initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively document artifacts and processes and then explain them to others.

How will you get here?

Education:

Bachelor's or master's in computer science.

Experience:

• Passionate programmer and full-stack engineer with 7+ years of application development experience
• Strong in programming fields like object-oriented principles, design patterns, data structures
• Extensive experience in Java 8+/JEE application development architecture, frameworks, and technologies: Microservice, Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring RESTful Web Service, Hibernate/JPA
• 2+ years of application development using Angular or React or Vue or any other UI framework. Experience with Angular will be plus.
• Experience with database applications (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle)
• Experience with Docker, AWS, Debian/Ubuntu/Linux etc. will be plus.
• Ability to develop and guide unit testing using frameworks like Junit, Mockito etc.
• Experience using Git, Sonar, Jenkins
• Cross-functional expertise in implementing DevOps, CI/CD practices will be plus.
• Experience using Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience in conducting performance analysis and implementing system performance improvements.
• The candidate must possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, be comfortable working as part of a large, cross-functional, geographically distributed team, and be prepared to work to aggressive timelines along iterative software development schedules.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $129,400.00-$194,050.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards