Staff Software Engineer - Back and Frontend
Syngenta Group1 day ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Bracknell, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Establish technical direction and make accountable architectural decisions for analytics, insights, prediction services, knowledge management, and product integrations.
- Perform hands-on software engineering, code review, prototyping, and technical investigation for complex and high-risk initiatives.
- Own data access architecture, API design, document ingestion, and AI-assisted retrieval systems for the Knowledge Management area.
- Define and enforce engineering standards for testing, documentation, code review, merge gates, and agent-consumable interfaces.
- Drive performance optimization, scalability improvements, reliability enhancements, incident response, and post-mortem activities.
- Lead technical governance, architectural reviews, standards-setting, and cross-team pattern sharing.
- Partner with Product Management, engineers, stakeholders, and regulatory specialists to assess priorities, risks, trade-offs, and delivery estimates.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and structured knowledge sharing.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks relevant to analytics and AI-assisted engineering.
- Use AI coding tools in the primary workflow and critically assess AI-generated code and its failure modes.
Requirements
- Proven success building and operating production software systems at scale with mastery of system design and architectural trade-offs.
- Expert backend engineering skills in Python or Java, including data access patterns, API design, document ingestion pipelines, and text embedding model integration.
- Proficiency across backend and frontend technologies, with working knowledge of React or Angular and documented depth in at least one domain.
- Extensive experience with performance optimization, scalability analysis, and system reliability engineering across distributed systems.
- Advanced technical leadership, architectural governance, standards-setting, and cross-team technical influence without requiring formal line authority.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers at multiple career levels through technical guidance and rigorous code review.
- Experience managing complex technical projects, incident response, post-mortem analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Expert practice with AI coding tools and the ability to evaluate generated code and understand failure modes.
- Strong commitment to test coverage, merge-gate rules, agent-consumable interfaces, and documentation-as-code standards.
- Exceptional communication of technical trade-offs to product teams and regulatory specialists, plus the ability to learn domain requirements and build stakeholder credibility.
- Experience with software supporting analytics, machine learning, prediction services, or integrations.
Benefits
- Extensive benefits package including a pension scheme, bonus scheme, and private medical and life insurance.
- Up to 31.5 days of annual holiday.
- Flexible working arrangement.
- Opportunity to contribute to impactful work in an international environment and apply technology within the chemical and agricultural sectors.
- Global team environment, learning culture, and a wide range of training options.
About Syngenta Group
Syngenta Group builds and sells seeds, crop‑protection products (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides), and digital agronomy tools that help farmers increase yields and manage risk. Its business spans R&D, manufacturing, and global distribution to growers and agricultural retailers, complemented by advisory and data services. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the company was formed in 2020 and is privately owned by China’s Sinochem Holdings, operating across more than 90 countries.