Engineer II, Software

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Job Description

About the Company:

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $25 billion and approximately 1,30,000 employees globally. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity.

Through our world-class brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.

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 role is for a hands-on Senior Engineer who could make a difference to the product in terms of the design and architecture, and actively contribute to the development of new features. This person will be a member of a cross-functional team building a public cloud-based SaaS delivery platform and associated application services.

Responsibilities:

• Active contributions to identifying technical risks, alternative solutions to various problems, etc.

• Responsible for ownership of multiple significant software modules

• Responsible for leading the integrity of technical work on significant concurrent projects.

• Plans, participates, and performs the technical work of an assignment.

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

• Leads the implementation, automated unit and integration testing, debugging, and integration of code of extreme complexity across multiple concurrent projects.

• Establishes and maintains thorough and accurate documentation of all work.

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

Candidate Requirement:

Education & Experience levels:

Bachelor's in Engineering/Computer Science or Master's degree or equivalent; proven experience of around 5+ years

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Hands-on experience designing web-based applications in Java/Python technologies and UI technologies

• Hands-on experience in Java application development frameworks and technologies: Java Spring and Hibernate, Python FastAPI or Flask

• Experience with databases, persistence frameworks, and SQL

• Solid design and programming experience and very strong in programming fields like object-oriented principles, design patterns, data structures, and unit testing

• Significant experience using Agile Scrum development processes.

• Excellent analytical and technical skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work effectively with dispersed, remote, and global teams when needed.

• Having a wide range of experience and understanding of trends and technologies; uses technical knowledge to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways 

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Amazon (AWS), Microservices, Agile Team, Angular JS, Python, Selenium, Maven, Spring, Grunt, Shell Scripting

• Amazon (AWS) services experience including AWS IOT, Kinesis, Redbrick, QuickSight, PTC

• Experience using Agile software development methodologies.