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Senior Software Engineer - Food

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Job ID 311419 Date posted 07/29/2025 Location : Costa Rica Category  DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND DATA (DT&D) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

  • The Senior Professional, Software Engineering job designs, develops and maintains software applications and systems. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and 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 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: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
  • AUTOMATION: Leads the application of 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 different engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
  • TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software.
  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Suggests options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
  • DOCUMENTATION: Builds and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
  • TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
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Minimum Qualifications

  • Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar or equivalent experience with at least 6+ years of experience as a Web developer (Full Stack) using modern technologies.
  • Proficient experience working with Front End applications using ReactJS
  • 5+ years of experience working in JavaScript
  • Very good experience working with RESTful API / Microservices architecture using Python Django/Flask/FastAPI
  • Good experience working with relational and non-SQL database technologies.
  • Proven record working as a team player
  • Excellent knowledge of amazon AWS S3 and other cloud services.
  • Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
  • Excellent design and programming skills.
  • Comfortable and willing to learn new and growing technologies in a fast-paced mode 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with CI/CD/DevOps (Plus)
  • Experience testing web applications
  • Experience leading technical teams (big plus)

Cargill is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodation to our job applicants with disabilities.

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