Senior Backend Engineer

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for Senior Backend Engineer. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.

Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

• Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
• Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
• Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably

Overview:

The Senior Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems for Bunge's digital products. The Senior Backend Engineer will work with a team of talented engineers to ensure the efficiency, reliability, and security of Bunge’s backend services. This senior-level role requires advanced technical expertise in backend technologies, exceptional problem-solving skills, the ability to provide technical guidance to other team members as well as oversee/validate outcomes delivered by contracted vendors. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and passionate about building reliable and efficient backend services that drive the company's digital initiatives.

Essential Functions:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs using industry-standard frameworks.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define API requirements and specifications.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with team members.
• Troubleshoot and debug backend issues, and implement solutions to resolve them.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest backend technologies and best practices, and share knowledge with the team.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process and codebase.
• Ensure that backend systems are optimized for performance and scalability.
• Guide teammates on developing efficient and secure backend components
• Establish and promote best practices, standards and guidelines related to back-end engineering for Bunge technology products.

Impact/Dimensions:

• Contributes to the development of short-term strategies within the department.
• Contributes to standards, best practices and security measures implemented in own area.
• Works on projects and initiatives that have an impact on business on a domestic or international scale.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in own area within the organization.

Management/Leadership:

• Manages operational plans.
• May participate with comparable influence in large projects and initiatives.
• Provides leadership to professionals and support staff.
• Contributes to short- to mid-term talent optimization plans to execute strategies within their job area.
• Guides delivery teams on best practices, standards and approach to solving problems.
• Leading implementation of established best practices, standards and guidelines in own area.

Knowledge and Technical Competencies:

• Strong proficiency in Java,
• Nice to have: .Net, Python, or Node.js.
• Experience with building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB (cloud databases are plus).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
• Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Education/Experience:

• Typically Bachelor's degree with 6 - 10 years of position related experience, or equivalent combo of education and experience level. Has in-depth knowledge in own discipline and basic knowledge (know as reference) of related disciplines.
• Experience with working in agile projects.
• Fluency in English

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