Title:  Sr Software Engineer- Engineering COE (hybrid)

Job Purpose and Impact

We are seeking a senior technical expert to guide and educate engineering teams on full-stack application development, modern software engineering standards, and Cargill's shared platforms and tools. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and training teams to architect, design, and develop scalable, secure digital solutions. You will drive efforts to build and operate shared services, contribute to Cargill's standard technology catalog by evaluating and migrating technologies, and implement CI/CD tooling and automation. 

You will actively contribute by authoring application code in both platform and products. You will focus on consolidating and simplifying fragmented architectures, bringing coherence to disjointed services, and providing unified technical direction. You will build and own software that is focused on developer experience and enablement. In this hands-on role, you will ensure engineering teams adopt and implement these practices, helping to simplify processes, troubleshoot issues, and continuously evolve Cargill’s digital ecosystem. 

Key Accountabilities

• Apply software engineering patterns and principles to design, develop, test, integrate, maintain and troubleshoot complex and varied software solutions and incorporate security practices in newly developed and maintained applications.
• Participate in peer code review sessions to review code, coach peers and ensure code quality.
• Incorporate the company's engineering and development best practices within the full software development lifecycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, building processes, testing and security principles, to deliver high quality code rapidly.
• Collaborate to lead demonstration and continuous feedback sessions to improve development and help drive the long-term vision.
• Participate in the engineering community by maintaining and sharing relevant technical approaches and modern skills.
• Advise and recommend pragmatic architectures and implementations for platform and product engineering teams  
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Confirmed experience automating pipelines for continuous integration, testing, delivery and security
• Confirmed experience architecting applications, databases, services or integrations
• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience working with platform engineering practices, including Infrastructure as Code, automated end-to-end testing, and integration with unified observability and artifact repositories 
• Experience leading teams in adopting DevOps philosophies, incorporating configuration as code, application packaging. 
• Expertise in applying performance profiling techniques, infrastructure normalization, and leveraging constrained technology catalogs to reduce complexity and enhance automation 
• Experience with Java, JavaScript and React, Golang, notably. Additionally, the ability to learn and work in programming languages that are unfamiliar. 
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with platform teams to ensure alignment with opinionated deployment pipelines and security practices.