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Job Purpose and Impact

We are seeking a skilled engineer to support and educate teams on full-stack application development, modern software engineering practices, and Cargill's shared platforms and tools. As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to building and enhancing scalable, secure digital solutions while collaborating with teams to develop best practices. You will assist in building and operating shared services, contribute to the standard technology catalog, and help implement CI/CD tooling and automation. 

In this role, you will actively participate by authoring application code for both platforms and products. Additionally, you will help develop software that improves the developer experience and enablement. Through your contributions, you will support engineering teams in adopting these practices, troubleshooting issues, and helping Cargill’s digital ecosystem evolve. 

Key Accountabilities

• Apply software engineering patterns and principles to design, develop, test, integrate, maintain and troubleshoot moderately complex software solutions and incorporate security practices in newly developed and maintained applications.  
• Participate in peer code review sessions both as a submitter and as a reviewer to ensure code quality  
• Incorporate the company's engineering and development practices within software development life cycle processes.  
• Apply development and operation engineering principles to continuously integrate, test and deploy developed code.  
• 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 solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.  
• Other duties as assigned  

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience,  
• Confirmed experience building front end or back end of application based on popular design patterns  
• Minimum of two years of related work experience  
• Other minimum qualifications may apply  

PRIOR BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCES  

• Experience with infrastructure and platform engineering practices, including Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and integration with observability tools. 
• Experience working in a DevOps environment, including familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and application packaging. 
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, React, or Go, with the ability to learn and adapt to new programming languages. 
• Familiarity with security principles and the ability to apply them within software development. 

KEY BEHAVIORS  

• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.  
• Anticipates and adopts innovations in business building digital and technology applications.  
• Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.  

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES TO BE GAINED  

• Apply software engineering patterns to build and maintain scalable, secure solutions. 
• Incorporate security practices in all stages of software development. 
• Collaborate with senior engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines and automation. 
• Learn to troubleshoot and resolve complex software issues across critical systems. 
• Gain exposure to modern tools and practices within a cross-functional team. 
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance delivery speed and quality.