Principal Software Engineer

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 our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Principal Software Engineer

Eurofins IT Solutions, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

With 54 facilities worldwide, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (BPT) is the largest network of bio/pharmaceutical GMP product testing laboratories providing comprehensive laboratory services for the world's largest pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device companies.

Behind the scenes, BPT is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Electronic Lab Notebook(ELN). These are sophisticated computer programs that will be used by our scientists, engineers, and technicians to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in our international network of laboratories.

This role reports to a Engineering Manager.

Required Experience and Skills

Experience:

• 7 to 10 years of experience with developing end-to-end web applications using Microsoft stack of technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of Web application development using .NET, C#, Asp.net, MVC, WebAPI.
• Strong Working knowledge of Angular 2 or above, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Good working knowledge of Cosmos DB, MSSQL - SQL etc.
• Experience with usage of TFS
• Familiar UI testing and Unit Testing (MS Test/ Jasmine/ MOQ/ NUnit/ Karma etc.)
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP)
• Strong working knowledge of SOLID principles and design patterns that includes Creational, Structural, Behavioral
• Strong experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures
• Able to provide technical recommendations and solve technical problems
• Should have working knowledge on Code review that includes, raising code review, resolve comment reviews, Closing code reviews.
• Should be aware of best practices in programming
• Should know how to troubleshoot performance-related issues, how to write efficient code and query, how to use SQL profiler
• Working knowledge Authentication and Authorization [Plus OAuth2, OpenIDC etc.] (5+)
• Should have worked on at least one SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) project
• Should have worked in an AGILE practice methodology (preferably SCRUM)

Desirable Experience

Strong orientation towards Performance tuning and optimization with Microsoft technologies

Personal Skills:

• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;
• Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;
• Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Structured and clear writing skills;
• Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;
• Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining.