Title: Software Engineer - Food ‎

Job Requisition ID: 333011

Location:

La Ribera de Belen, Heredia, CR Costa Rica, 40702

Category: Digital Technology

Description:

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.

Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Professional, Software Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop software applications and systems. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to implement new software features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing software to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging moderately complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with software engineering team members.

Key Accountabilities

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
AUTOMATION: Applies internal software deployment platform, methodologies and tools to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Makes suggestions for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
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Qualifications

2+ years of experience in programming languages like C++, C#, Python, Java or similar.
2+ years of experience designing, maintaining and supporting frontend applications built using modern JavaScript projects. Experience in ReactJS or any modern JS framework is highly desired.
2+ years of experience designing, maintaining and supporting REST API solutions. Experience with python-based frameworks like Django/Flask/FastAPI is highly desired but not mandatory.
2+ years working with CSS or any modern styling framework like MaterialUI, Antd or bootstrap.
2+ years working with SQL or NoSQL databases is a must. The candidate should have solid understanding of database objects, queries, operations, ORMs, and migrations.
Ability to explain and work through technical discussions with stakeholders and clients comfortably.
Strong fundamentals of overall system design and architecture.
Act proactively when identifying issues or areas of improvement in working software.

Nice to have:

2+ years designing, maintaining and supporting mobile applications built using React-native.
Good understanding of how cloud providers and cloud services work (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Understanding of AI concepts like LLMs, Agentic AI, GenAI, RAG, Vector Search.
Flexibility to incorporate AI-tooling into the daily work to optimize performance and outputs. (Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot etc)