Covestro produces polymer materials that support sustainability in multiple industries. The Full Stack Developer will improve the efficiency of R&D processes by developing and deploying innovative software applications and digital workflows, while coordinating with internal and external clients to drive digital discovery.
Contributor on high-impact regional and global digital projects as a full-stack developer, and train to become fully productive with Covestro's preferred technologies (Angular, Spring-Boot, Postgres).
Design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of complex tailor-made software applications, digital workflows, automation and/or virtualization solutions, ensuring seamless integration of new applications with multiple existing data structures.
Develop software using professional processes such as maintenance of a common code repository, release management, automatic testing, transition into the operations (DevOps) phase, using agile software development methodology. Implement Covestro standards for cloud computing architecture, IT security and data protection.
Based on prior experience in professional software development roles, provide guidance to Covestro’s global internal software development community (“AppMakers Guild”)
Identification and analysis of functional and non-functional requirements across multiple functions
Proactively engage with end-users / product owners as they express their needs and review software products. Proactively conduct testing and resolution of errors and communicate with all stakeholders for each project, continuously pushing projects forward.
Independently manage time between multiple projects ensuring that all milestones and timelines are met.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor’s degree in the field of chemistry, chemical engineering, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar with at least 4 years of experience developing software applications; OR Master’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, mathematics, statistics, data science or similar with at least 2 years of experience developing software applications.
Experience in dealing with technical data from R&D, quality assurance, and production.
Good interdisciplinary background in engineering, statistics, chemistry, and mathematics.
Interest and willingness to learn additional necessary programming languages and technical skills.
Demonstrated success at developing and delivering innovative digital solutions that solve business or operational needs.
Ability to apply computing and programming concepts to answer scientific and technical questions.
Proactive working attitude, self-initiative and desire to maintain expertise and acquire new skills and knowledge in the fields required for the job is among your key competencies.
Fluent language skills in English, both written and spoken.
Preferred
Experience managing your own projects.
Experience with software development in team environment, preferably with Agile methodology.
Experience in deploying and maintaining solutions to AWS with cloud formation and lambda functions, and containerized solutions (e.g., Docker).
Experience working in an international company environment.
Benefits
Covestro produces polymer materials that support sustainability in multiple industries.
