IT Software Engineer

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group's key figures are approx. 6.515 billion Euros turnover, over 900 laboratories across 62 countries and about 62,000 staff.

POSITION TITLE (ENGLISH):                                      Software Engineer                      

REPORTING LOCATION:                                            Bangalore, India

WORKING LOCATION:                                               Bangalore, India

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

CORE OBJECTIVE:

• Deliver and maintain high quality software by oneself and together, within a team, including analysis, design, code, testing, documentation, operation, support, etc.
• Promote high quality engineering of the target solutions.
• Embrace Agile practices and adhere to Eurofins guidelines in all the phases of the SDLC;
• Collaborate with users, functional analysts, application architects, deployment team(a) and other stakeholders to design fit for purpose software and features.
• Develop working relationships within the wider Eurofins IT community and with internal customers.
• Create and contribute to a good team spirit.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, ROLE AND SKILLS:

Experience & Role:

• At least 2/3 years as a software developer or system engineer in .Net based full stack development.
• Strong technical and analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of application architecture.
• Experience in collaborating in projects in multiple international geographical locations. Work with different stakeholders to author, review, and improve technical and functional specifications, which includes tests description and acceptance criteria.
• Author and contribute, timely and at the appropriate quality level, development, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, tests and documentation of the company’s application suite.
• Follow and promote development practices and policies in order to produce high quality software which can be easily implemented within the company;
• Use state-of-art software engineering practices and development frameworks – namely Agile – so as to ensure superior quality on every delivery;
• Escalate and follow-up on timely manner any and all the issues that might be a blocker, issue deviation from SPOs, guidelines, etc.;

EVOLUTION:

What we offer:

• A launch pad into various senior management opportunities – within the many business lines of Eurofins globally – or into the management hierarchy in our different corporate functions;
• The opportunity to grow your skills in a demanding, fast growing organization;
• A chance to become part of a highly motivated international team of professionals.
  
   

In our fast growing group, successful leaders are frequently being offered increased areas of responsibility (subject to geographic mobility).

Skills:

Technology skills:

Mandatory

• Strong experience in .NET and Angular.
• Hands on experience in SQL Server writing complex queries.
• Strong background in Software Development/Engineering.
• Strong taste of unit testing and peer testing the code developed.
• Soung exposure in code quality measuring tools like SonarQube.

Preferred

• Knowledge on cloud based development, preferably MS Azure
• Knowledge of SOA is desirable

Methodology skills

• Agile-Scrum

Personal Skills:

• Autonomous and Proactive.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to make independent judgment.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand end-user needs.
• Risk oriented sensitivity.
• Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities.

PREFERED CANDIDATES:

• An ideal candidate is expected to be self-motivated with a get-it-done attitude; the ability to think critically; enjoy working with teams spread globally and across cultures; a desire to learn in new areas; and the discipline to pay attention to deadlines, details and quality.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with the team positively and help them to succeed in their sprint deliverables. Must be able work and influence without authority;
• Any Bachelor’s/Master’s degree with the right experience;
• Will be an added advantage if worked on Laboratory related applications;
•  Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

What Happens Next
 
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
 
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Closing Date
 
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.