Eurofins Hiring for Principal Software Engineer at Bengaluru, India Full Time

About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product 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, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997. 

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture and we offer fulfilling careers.

TITLE: eCommerce Principal engineer

REPORTING TO: Manager

WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore, India

The Role:  The position shall manage the group of developers technically in Dublin, to develop one or more high quality eCommerce products (Microsoft based tech stack) and related mobile application for the Primary Eurofins eCommerce Portal. Product is developed in coordination with the India & Europe Team.

Responsibilities: The role has ultimate responsibility for the assigned project(s) and manages all aspects of delivery including definition, planning, monitoring, customer satisfaction and others aspects of an agile product development. This role is more of a hands-on Development Manager who will have the total accountability and responsibility for delivering with highest quality (minimum defect leakage and density) and within the said cost/time.

• Some of the responsibilities are listed below; however these are not the exhaustive set of responsibilities.

•  Deliver high quality shippable product as per the scope of the program. Should ensure that the quality is measured, monitored and improved with every release.

• Manage team of Developers technically, and ensure that all best practices of software engineering is implemented.

•  Oversee planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.

• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

•  Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.

•  Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to Sr. management

•  Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Experience:

• Overall 8-10 years in experience in IT Application/Software Development field.

• Good and hands-on knowledge of Agile adoption (concept of delivering MVP) is mandatory.

• Good to have handled atleast 2 eCOM or e-Portal development projects including it’s deployment and maintenance. Additional knowledge of delivering multi-platform mobile apps is an advantage.

• Good to have working experience in US, UK or Europe for atleast 2 years (should have stayed onsite for extended period).

• Highly assertive and ability to drive the onsite teams to seek information or clarification.

• Self-Managed and highly independent.

• Healthcare or life science domain will be highly preferred.

Technology skills:

• Strong and proven background in Information Technology.

• Strong working knowledge of .NET, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web Services, WCF Rest and Web API

• Working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS 3, Bootstrap technologies

• Working knowledge of MS SQL Databases

• Working knowledge of ESB or Message Queuing (MSMQ).

• Microservices is an added advantage.

Methodology skills

• AGILE,  TDD, UML

BE Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s degree with the right experience