Sr Director, Backend Engineering Home Lead, DFS at Bayer
Seattle, WA
$177,000–$266,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering leadership role within Bayer's Digital Farming Solutions (DFS) division, focused on overseeing the backend engineering community that supports the FieldView platform. The position involves setting technical standards, shaping architectural direction across APIs, microservices, and cloud-native systems, managing distributed and nearshore teams, and partnering with cross-functional leadership on workforce planning, delivery strategy, and technology modernization. Suited to a seasoned engineering executive with 15+ years of experience leading large-scale, globally distributed organizations.
Principal level · 15+ years · Chicago, IL · Full-time
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This is a senior people-management role (Sr. Director) with direct oversight of managers, senior technical leaders, and globally distributed engineering teams, as well as budget and workforce planning responsibility — mapped to 11-3021 Computer and Information Systems Managers.
The role is advertised as 'Sr. Director', which maps to Principal on the seniority ladder given its org-wide scope (member of the Engineering Leadership Team, shaping strategic direction across the entire Backend Engineering community).
The posting lists three possible locations — Chicago, IL; Creve Coeur, MO; and Seattle, WA — with no single primary site indicated. Chicago is used as the representative CBSA.
A Bachelor's degree in Engineering is listed as required but immediately qualified with 'or equivalent experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
AI/automation adoption is mentioned in the responsibilities narrative rather than in a hard-requirements block, so it is marked as preferred.
The posting names no specific cloud platform, programming language, or toolchain beyond the architectural concepts (APIs, microservices, cloud-native, distributed systems, Agile, DevOps) — the role is primarily a leadership/management position with backend engineering domain expertise.
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