Javascript Engineer Lead

JavaScript Engineer Lead
- Opportunity to **be a part of IT Engineering, Development & Integration organization in Singapore**:

- ** Based in Singapore, **the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
- Join the **premier biopharmaceutical company** that has been in Singapore for more than **25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

We are seeking energetic, forward thinking professionals to join our Information Technology group in Singapore. You will have the opportunity to work on global teams to identify the biggest opportunities as well as tackle the biggest challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information, and technology.

We offer technology professionals incredible opportunities to learn from others, to challenge themselves, and to enjoy a reward that technology careers don’t often bring: the satisfaction of helping to save lives.

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

Join us in the Digital Transformation and tackle the biggest opportunities/challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information, and technology. Become a member of our Foundational Platforms team in Singapore IT Hub to create awesome digital products and enjoy a reward that technology careers don’t often bring, the satisfaction of contributing to saving and improving lives.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Act as Lead Engineer to design & develop high quality JavaScript based Frontend &
- Build & Develop reusable components to enhance Web Platform Strategy to Supercharge IT
- Drive & Improve current web competency & technology
- Access latest technology in the market & identify which technology is aligned with the standard declaration in Foundation Platform
- Act as Technical Architect Lead to collaborate with Enterprise Architecture team
- Design CI/CD deployment with automating testing, logging and monitoring
- Promote Software Development Best Practices
- Participate in Code Reviews & Coach Junior Engineers

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**

To be successful in this role, you will have:
**Education Minimum Requirement**:
Education BSc Degree/Master or equivalent with relevant experience in Computer Science or other related disciplines

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- Master’s or Bachelor s Degree with relevant experience in Computer Science or
- related discipline, with a minimum 6-7 years of equivalent experience.
- Strong exposure in frontend development using HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript
- e.g. ExpressJS
- Familiar with at least one MV* framework, e.g. ReactJS etc.
- Experience with responsive web design techniques
- Experience in Single Page Web Application development
- Experience in design & implement RESTful API
- Experience in Test-driven development or Behavior-driven development
- Practice Agile & DevOps in software development
- Experience with web analytics reporting tool like Google Analytics, Moz, GWT
- Enthusiastic in discovery of new technology, new framework etc.
- Familiar with cloud services, e.g. AWS, Azure etc

Our Support Functions deliver services and makes recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the experience of working at our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**WHO WE ARE?**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**WHAT WE LOOK FOR**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us — and start making your impact today.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
No

**Travel Requirements**:
10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
**Shift**:
**Valid Driving License**:
No

**Hazardous Material(s)**:
**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R166238