Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
Nutrien Ag Solutions, Inc. has an opening for a Principal Software Engineer in Loveland, Colorado. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining a highly scalable cloud-native digital services platform with numerous data products and services. The engineer will identify bottlenecks through profiling and metrics, optimize for low-latency processing, and operate with minimal oversight. This position also includes mentoring less experienced developers, acting as a technical leader and expert in specific domains, making architecture decisions at the team level, and serving as a technical lead for building solutions in the digital agriculture space. The role may allow for telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, and 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a software engineering-related occupation.
- 5 years of software development experience with strong emphasis on writing code and delivering features.
- 5 years of experience building and maintaining highly scalable, performant and fault tolerant data processing pipelines and services on AWS.
- 3 years of experience in the capacity of technical leadership, building services that are consumed by internal and external stakeholders (Engineering, Analytics, Digital Products, Data Science groups etc.).
- 3 years of experience in Agronomic Domain or Ag Tech.
- Collecting and using metrics to fine tune latencies in APIs and Services as well as speeding up data processing pipelines.
- Code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, and application security and excellent instincts for software architecture.
- TypeScript, Python, REST APIs, JavaScript, and NodeJS.
- Strong skills in Extreme Programming/ other Agile frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain a highly scalable cloud native digital services platform consisting of a multitude of data products and services.
- Show initiative and skill at identifying bottlenecks through profiling, metrics and solutioning for low latency processing and services.
- Operate with minimal oversite.
- Mentor less experienced developers through teaching and demonstrations.
- Be seen as an expert and technical leader within the technical components of the domains/products/pipelines/integrations.
- Make architecture decisions at a team level.
- Serve as technical lead for building solutions in the digital agriculture space.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, and life insurance
- Disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week
- Retirement program with generous matching employer contributions
- Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
- Paid personal and maternity/parental leaves
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Annual incentive plan
- Long-term incentive plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
