Associate Software Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

The Associate Software Engineer (Portal Solution) role supports, enhances, and maintains an internal portal application that provides easy access to product data integrated with SAP PLM. Under guidance, this role focuses on application support, issue resolution, and implementation of small to moderate enhancements. The associate engineer works as part of a product team supporting a business‑critical portal used across multiple parts of Cargill.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Assists with designing and developing high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
• AUTOMATION: Partners to apply internal software deployment platform, methodologies and tools to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
• COLLABORATION: Coordinates cross functional team of product managers, designers, architects, and other engineers to help gather requirements and deliver resolutions that meet business needs and deliver cybersecurity goals.
• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains standard unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Makes suggestions for improving the software development and deployment processes, and partners to implement the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
• DOCUMENTATION: Maintains comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for standard issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications

• Have a Bacehelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience with minimum 2 years or more of relevant experience.
• Experience with web application development
• Working knowledge of .NET Core for backend development
• Basic experience with ReactJS or other front‑end frameworks
• Understanding of REST APIs and system integrations
• Exposure to relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
• Familiarity with cloud‑based environments and modern application deployment
• Ability to understand requirements and implement solutions with guidance
• Willingness to learn and collaborate with technical, functional, and SAP teams