Staff Engineer, Software

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

About Team:

We are the Digital Foundation Platform team, the software centre of excellence (CoE) for Thermo Fisher Scientific. We develop and deliver foundational components, SaaS-based applications, digital lab (Cloud-based) tools, and foundational AI and agentic AI solutions to help scientists work more efficiently and precisely, enabling them to make our world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Our elite software products and solutions accelerate scientific discovery and lab productivity. These solutions

• Provide rich content, selection tools, teamwork tools, and scientific apps that allow our customers to focus on innovation and the complexities of their science.

• Build a connected world for our customers where discoveries happen in a thoughtful way - where every device/product is connected, self-aware, and self-healing-thereby enabling efficient workflows and collaborative science.

• Enable our customers to efficiently handle their labs by providing them with insight into workflow processes, asset uptime, and product availability.

We give them the flexibility to access what they need when they need it, allowing them to select and receive products and services across multiple channels. We apply industry-standard methodologies to the design, development, and deployment of best-in-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 that of a Lead Developer who is 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 leading, empowering, mentoring, and providing ample guidance to the other team members with respect to technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

• Active contribution to solution analysis of requirements

• Able to understand, articulate, and challenge the requirements

• Provides guidance regarding design activity to other programmers on technical aspects relating to the project.

• Proactively looks for ways and patterns to continuously automate feature testing with measurable and tangible goals

• Candidate is authentic, transparent, and leads by example, holding self and others accountable. Inspires, motivates, and collaborates with others

• Anticipates needs and problems while creating solutions. Is willing to ask difficult questions and take risks. Greets challenge and change as opportunity

• A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and figure out what needs figuring out

• Actively participates in development community of practices in sharing and learning standard processes, 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

Candidate Requirement:

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

Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience :

• 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, Google Juice, Spring, and JSON/XML/Ajax

• 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

• Minimum 4 year…