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 Mercks 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.

Qualifications :

Education : Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science or equivalent.

Mandatory Skills :

- 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.

Preferred 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.