Sr. Software Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact
We are seeking a senior front-end focused full-stack engineer to guide and support engineering teams in adopting and implementing Cargill's new enterprise design system across existing applications. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in modernizing user experiences by helping teams migrate to the new design system while ensuring consistency, accessibility, and technical excellence.You will operate in a hands-on capacity, actively contributing code, resolving integration challenges, and promoting best practices that align with enterprise standards. Additionally, you will collaborate with the Design Center of Excellence to evolve and enhance reusable components and patterns that improve developer efficiency and create a cohesive digital ecosystem across Cargill
Key Accountabilities
Lead Design System Adoption

• Guide and support engineering teams in migrating existing applications to the new design
• system. Actively contribute code to ensure consistent implementation of reusable
• components while maintaining accessibility and design standards.

Evolve and Enhance the Design System

• Partner with the Design Center of Excellence to expand and improve the design system.
• Identify opportunities for new reusable components and standardized patterns that
• elevate both developer productivity and user experience.

Software Development Excellence

• Design and develop high-quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable, and
• efficient code aligned with modern engineering standards.

Deployment Automation & Platform Alignment

• Apply internal deployment platforms, methodologies, and tools to automate release
• processes, ensuring smooth, reliable, and repeatable deployments.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to gather complex requirements
• and deliver scalable solutions that meet business objectives.

Testing & Debugging

• Develop and maintain complex unit and integration tests. Perform structured debugging to
• preserve application quality, reliability, and performance.

Continuous Improvement

• Recommend and implement improvements to development and deployment processes
• that increase efficiency, reliability, and operational maturity.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for applications, deployment
• processes, and system configurations to enable team scalability and supportability.

Technical Support & Issue Resolution

• Provide technical troubleshooting and production support for complex application issues
• to ensure minimal downtime and rapid resolution.

Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience• Minimum of four years of relevant work experience (typically reflects five or more
years of progressive experience)• Experience with React, Next, Vite, and TanStack• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies• Experience working with platform engineering practices including Infrastructure as
Code, automated end-to-end testing, and integration with unified observability and
artifact repositories
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS• Experience leading teams in adopting DevOps philosophies, including configuration
as code and application packaging• Expertise in performance profiling, infrastructure normalization, and leveraging
constrained technology catalogs to reduce complexity and enhance automation• Ability to collaborate closely with platform teams to align with opinionated
deployment pipelines and enterprise security practices