Advisor, Software Engineer - Ag & Trading

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Advisor, Trading Engineering job leads and advises the design, development and delivery of trading software initiatives that drive the trading operations. As a recognized subject matter expert in trading engineering, this job provides technical thought leadership for the co-creation and maintenance of sophisticated software applications vital to organizational trading activities, leading cross functional teams to conceptualize, design and adopt best in class industry standards and emerging technologies to improve the performance and capabilities of the trading systems and advance business objectives. This job also leads code reviews and insights and knowledge sharing to uphold the standards of excellence and advance trading engineering team's capabilities.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Leads and advises the design and implementation of robust trading systems, applying appropriate technologies to write clean, efficient and maintainable code, integrating market data feeds from financial providers and exchanges to process real time data, and customizing solutions to align with trading strategies and regulatory requirements.

• TECHNICAL GUIDANCE: Applies expertise in software development and deployment automation to mentor and support the software engineering team, improving trading applications’ performance, scalability and reliability, and validating software architecture to support high frequency trading, real time data processing and low latency communications.

• QUALITY ASSURANCE: Leads and advises adherence to the highest standards of quality and performance in all trading software applications through rigorous testing, comprehensive code reviews, and strict adherence to best in class industry standards to prevent system failures that lead to significant financial losses.

• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Leads the development of comprehensive test plans, including unit and integration tests, to validate functionality and performance, applying mastery debugging skills to resolve software defects and maintain system integrity, performing highly complex testing to ensure the system handles high transaction volumes, and engaging with quality assurance teams members to ensure software meets standards before deployment.

• COLLABORATION: Reviews to align technical solutions with business goals, engaging with traders, analysts, and other teams to gather requirements and deliver needed solutions, influencing agile practices like standups and sprint planning for effective communication, leading knowledge sharing through code reviews to foster learning and best in class industry standard, and articulating technical concepts clearly to nontechnical team members.

• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Advocates the commitment to improving system performance, scalability and reliability to ensure systems evolve with changing needs, influencing teams to stay current with industry trends and best in class industry practices, leading continuous improvements to development processes and tools, and integrating users and stakeholders feedback to refine software solutions.

• DOCUMENTATION: Leads establishing and maintaining technical documentation of system architecture and development processes, ensuring clear technical guides and operation manuals to facilitate ease of use, maintaining compliance with regulations and policies, and building the knowledge base for delivering onboarding and training new team members.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Leads and mentors monitoring live trading systems for optimal performance, including addressing real time issues promptly, responding quickly to resolve highly complex operational problems, minimizing downtime and risk, mentoring routine maintenance to keep systems secure and efficient, and leading disaster recovery planning to ensure business continuity during system failures or crises.

Qualifications

MINIMUM & TYPICAL YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 10 years of relevant professional experience.

• At least 5 years of experience in trading, finance, or a closely related field, within the overall professional experience requirement.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience using generative AI tools as an integral part of day-to-day software development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• This is a senior role focused on building bespoke solutions for a trading environment. The areas below reflect our existing applications and Digital Technology & Data (DT&D) engineering guidance and expectations.

• SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION: Designs maintainable, modular software and well-defined service interfaces, including integration services and event-driven messaging, with clear contracts and secure authentication and authorization. Works across services and data platforms, including existing applications. Applies sound design, debugging and refactoring practices when modernizing existing applications.

• QUALITY AND DELIVERY: Uses Git and GitHub for collaboration and code review. Builds automated unit, component, integration and end-to-end tests, and applies linting, dependency management and security checks. Experience with CI/CD, Docker, deployment automation in AWS, identity services and Datadog observability is valuable.

• AI IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Uses AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex) as a productivity multiplier across the development lifecycle, while holding generated code to the same standards as hand-written code. Can explain and defend any AI-assisted change, works only through Cargill-provisioned access, and never compromises confidential information.

• SENIOR ENGINEERING CONTRIBUTION: Independently delivers outcomes from design through production support, explains technical trade-offs, mentors colleagues and improves shared engineering practices. Brings practical delivery experience and the ability to learn Cargill platforms and standards quickly.

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.

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