Sr BackEnd Engineer

Overview

The Sr BackEnd Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems for Bunge's digital products. The Sr 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• API response time and throughput.
• Code quality, as measured by code reviews and automated testing.
• System uptime and reliability.
• Ease of use and complexity of maintenance of developed components.

Major Opportunities and Decisions

• Applies technical expertise to analyze and solve problems without clear precedents.
• Identifies ways to apply functional knowledge and methodologies to solve complex challenges.
• Recommends process, product, or service improvements based on anticipated internal and external business challenges.
• Establishes standards, best practices and guidelines for other developers for increased quality of delivery and compliance with internal policies.

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.

Key Relationships, Stakeholders & Interfaces

• Internal: Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, Database Administrators, Architects, Product Owners.
• External: Technology Vendors, Cloud Providers.

Knowledge and Technical Competencies

• Strong proficiency in backend programming, including
• Apex , with ability to write complex Apex code for custom logic and triggers
• Understanding of Lightning Web Components
• Experience with building RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Deep understanding of Sales Cloud and Service Cloud standard data models
• Understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
• Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies (including Unit Testing and Debugging, CI/CD pipeline with automated testing).
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Education/Experience

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 of related disciplines.

• Experience with working in agile projects.
• Fluency in English
• Salesforce Certifications (Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I/II)

Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans/Disabled

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