Senior Software Engineer
Merck GroupJobsCloseBy Editorial Insights
Merck Group’s MilliporeSigma in St. Louis seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the on-site Digital and eCommerce team to design and evolve a cloud B2B platform, embracing microservices. You’ll own services, drive feature delivery with agile teams, mentor peers, and refine backlogs with product owners, maintaining quality and customer value. Ideal candidates have 5+ years’ experience, a CS degree, strong Java and REST skills, plus Spring Boot, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud environments, and eCommerce experience. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US; sponsorship not offered. Tips: tailor your resume to show measurable outcomes, highlight cross-functional impact, and share your GitHub or portfolio.
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This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your Role:
Our Digital and eCommerce division is looking to transform the Digital and eCommerce technology engine for MilliporeSigma. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role helping to design and build new features and components in our evolving platform, helping to embrace modern principles like microservices and event driven architectures.
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 MilliporeSigma. 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.
Specific role responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Work as part of an Agile development team, taking ownership for one or more services
- Take ownership of features and epics, working as part of a team – ensuring excellence in design, code, test and operation
- A willingness to embrace change and foster a Growth and Learning culture on the team
- Mentoring team members through code review, design reviews
- Work 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
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical field
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent hands on experience in Java
- Experience in developing REST services.
- Experience in unit test frameworks.
- Ability to be customer-centric and provide solutions based on the business requirements.
- Ability to work with cross-functional, global teams and a flexible work schedule.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication 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.)
- 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 ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Spring, Spring Boot,
- Experience developing B2B eCommerce systems.
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