Senior Specialist, UI Software Engineer

Job Description Required Skills: Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Secondary Language(s) Job Description: Senior Specialist, UI Software Engineer The Opportunity Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. Role overview We are seeking a highly experienced Senior UI Designer & Frontend Engineer who can lead UI development, enforce design consistency, drive front-end architecture, and collaborate across teams to ensure end-to-end unit testing coverage. This role requires deep expertise in React, TypeScript, UI design systems, Figma-to-code workflows, template-driven UI development, and CI/CD engineering using GitHub Actions. You will work closely with backend, integration, and QA teams to align UI unit tests, API contract tests, and backend unit testing, ensuring full functional coverage across the product. Why this Role matters: Our digital products directly influence how thousands of enterprise users discover, consume, and interact with data across Merck. The UI is not just a visual layer — it is the primary driver of customer satisfaction, adoption, and operational efficiency. This role is critical because: The UI is the Product For internal and external customers, the Discover platform’s usability, accessibility, and performance are experienced entirely through the UI. A robust, intuitive interface is the difference between user frustration and user delight. Enterprise-scale needs demand robust, configurable UI Our platform supports many business units, each requiring different visual flows. A configurable, template-driven UI dramatically reduces development effort, ensures consistency, and accelerates feature rollout across teams. Quality starts at the UI Most defects surface at the UI layer. Your expertise in unit testing, functionality testing, and collaboration with backend teams ensures that issues are caught early and the product is stable end‑to‑end. CI/CD automation is essential for speed and reliability By building GitHub Actions pipelines for automated UI builds, tests, and deployments, you will significantly improve development velocity, reduce regressions, and strengthen release confidence. UI consistency drives platform trust With multiple engineering teams contributing to Discover, maintaining a consistent design system and UX standards is crucial. You will lead the effort to unify visual identity, accessibility, and interaction patterns across the product. In short: This role ensures that the Product platform not only works — but works beautifully, reliably, and at scale, enabling Merck teams worldwide to access data effortlessly and confidently. This position is ideal for someone eager to grow in both frontend and backend skills. Key Responsibilities UI/Frontend Engineering Build scalable, reusable, template-driven UI components with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/SASS. Translate Figma designs and UX flows into pixel-perfect, accessible UI. Own UI architecture, performance optimization, and design system consistency. Implement state management via Redux, Context API, or Zustand. UI/UX Partnership Collaborate with product designers to refine specs and interaction patterns. Drive standardization between coded components and Figma design system. Unit Testing & Cross-Team Coverage UI Ownership: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright. Cross-team Integration: API contract testing alignment, backend unit testing collaboration. API Integration Consume and validate REST APIs. Partner with backend teams to ensure stable, testable API flows. GitHub Actions (CI/CD) Build automated pipelines for builds, tests, and deployments. Set up PR checks, linting, static analysis, and test gates. Collaboration, Leadership & Team Culture Partner with engineering lead, QA, architecture, and connected teams to adopt UI best practices. Mentor developers, drive code reviews, enforce UI standards. Collaborate across backend, QA, UX, and product. Primary skills: React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS / SCSS, REST API integration, Reusable UI components, Frontend architecture, Accessibility, Testing, Cross-functional collaboration Secondary skills Material UI, Design systems, Storybook, Web Components / Lit, CSS-in-JS / Emotion, Theming, Visual regression testing, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, OpenAPI / Swagger, Node.js, GraphQL Qualifications: 8+ years in UI engineering with React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/SASS. Strong Figma-to-UI implementation skills, context engineering skills Experience building configurable/template-driven UI. Strong unit testing expertise (Jest/RTL/Cypress/Playwright). Experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows. Strong API integration understanding. Excellent communication and Agile experience. Nice to Have: Frontend / UI Engineering Experience with micro-frontends (Module Federation). Building or contributing to design systems (Storybook, Material UI, Chakra UI). Familiarity with Web Components or Lit. Knowledge of Vite, Webpack, Rollup for frontend builds. Strong experience with CSS-in-JS frameworks (Styled Components, Emotion). Experience optimizing Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, performance budgets. Advanced Testing Experience writing contract tests using Pact or similar. Performance testing for UI (Locust, K6). Visual regression testing (Chromatic, Percy). DevOps & CI/CD Experience with GitHub Actions matrix builds, reusable workflows, OIDC federation. Familiarity with Terraform / IaC for UI deployment infra. Experience deploying UI apps via AWS CloudFront, S3, Amplify, or containerized UIs. Backend/Integration Alignment (Nice-to-Have) Understanding of API schema validation (Swagger/OpenAPI). Familiar with Node.js for tooling or lightweight services. Knowledge of GraphQL fundamentals. Soft Skills Ability to perform design-system governance and UI quality audits. Strong focus on DevEx, reusable patterns, and coding best practices. Mentoring junior engineers in React, testing, CI/CD, accessibility. Who we are We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, 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. #HYDIT2026 Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Regular Relocation: VISA Sponsorship: Travel Requirements: Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Valid Driving License: Hazardous Material(s): Job Posting End Date: 04/15/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.