IT Data Engineer

IT Data Engineer

Location: Chesterfield, MO, 63017 

Duration: 12 Months  

Job Type: -Contract Assignment 

Work Type:  Hybrid (This is a Hybrid role requiring local candidates- Schedule is 3 days per week in the office.)

Job Description: 

• Our Engineering and Data Science, Field Automation Engineering Team is a group of technologists passionate about creating the systems that fuel the farm of the future.
• We are reimagining and rebuilding our entire suite of field technologies for the world of digital ag, a world that is geospatial, that is automated, that is cognitive.
• A world where every plant matters.
• A world where machines, agronomists, breeders, scientists, and engineers work collaboratively to deliver products that revolutionize the experience of our customers. 
• We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team and help expand our custom software platforms that enable R&D’s global fleet of field test equipment.
• These connected systems interface with users, data assets, and analytics models to provide instructions to our equipment and to process the telemetry data it produces.
• Our systems are geospatial, highly available, and optimized to support the R&D pipeline.
• You will assume hands-on ownership of the architecture, design, and development of the software systems that will facilitate a new generation of data and human connectivity across all our electromechanical automation platforms. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work in an agile development environment to build and support full-stack cloud-based applications. 
• Work with development lead and stakeholders to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. 
• Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in application features. 
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing. 
• Troubleshoot and debug applications. 
• Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with development team, product management, and delivery. 
• Champion code quality including unit and integration testing. 
• Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features. 
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code. 
• Adhere to established and modern data security practices. 
• Provide guidance for technical design and architecture decisions within the team. 
• Participate in the evaluation and selection of new technologies. 
• Mentor other people and teams on technologies, techniques or standards across the organization. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years of experience developing REST APIs in a modern programming language/technology such as TypeScript or JavaScript. 
• 3+ years of experience developing single/multi-page web-based UI’s. 
• 2+ years of experience working with relational/NoSQL database technologies and abstraction tools. 
• 2+ years of experience developing in the AWS ecosystem and practical experience with Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS. 
• Practical experience architecting and designing full-stack software systems. 
• Practical experience and knowledge of software development best practices. 
• Demonstrable technical leadership 
• Demonstrable ability to manage ambiguity 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences. 

Desirable: 

• Experience developing IoT tech. or distributed systems generating large amounts of data. 
• Practical experience developing applications or scripting in Python 3 
• Experience with asynchronous, event driven technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ