Software Engineer - Food

Cargill's 155,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve our purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive. We combine 155 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, we are building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture. For more information, visit Cargill.com and our News Center.
Cargill as a Tech company? Absolutely. We're the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Cargill's passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. But as the world is in 
a constant state of change, we must also be in a constant search for fresh, new innovations. By bringing brave new technologies to life, we're putting tomorrow's ideas to work for the greater good right now. It's how Cargill is helping the world thrive.
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.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 3 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
• Proven work experience as a Python Back-end developer, microservice architecture, Database scaling, caching, etc.
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.
• Self-motivated attitude, and likes to stay current with new and evolving technologies
• Hands-on experience with building APIs using fast API, flask, or any other python library or framework
• Good knowledge of DS/Algo, System Design, and design principles
• Excellent analytical and keen to learn business acumen while developing product
• Good to have knowledge of React or any other Frontend framework, basic knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud