Lead Software Engineer

Your Job

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC.

(KAES) is looking for a Lead Software Engineer for our Back Office team, supporting our Finance and Accounting capabilities.

In this role you will oversee the delivery of productivity applications and integrations that enable our internal users and customers.

This individual will collaborate with delivery teams, product owners and business users to plan and estimate features for the product roadmap and ensure the best product is delivered to the end users.

Our Team

KAES and its subsidiaries market and distribute more than 13 million tons of fertilizer products annually worldwide.

The Lead Software Engineer will join an agile development organization operating across a variety of AWS services, applications and integrations.

This role will collaborate cross-functionally with the Back Office team, the Architecture team, and other technical and business teams across KAES.

This role will be based at our Wichita, KS headquarters.

What You Will Do


* Serve as a technical leader for one or more Back Office software delivery teams


* Partner with product owners and business users to incorporate their feedback into the product roadmap


* Partner with product owners and architects to create design documents for system integrations and provide delivery risks, dependencies and estimates


* Collaborate with the architecture, development and security capabilities to ensure that products are in line with architectural and security best practices


* Engage with Team Lead to perform breakdown, estimation and allocation of work across teams


* Ensure teams have a firm understanding of our SDLC and the quality expectations for their products


* Utilize the Serverless Framework, AWS suite and React to develop high volume applications and services in a complex distributed system


* Develop and maintain services in an event-driven and api-driven architecture to support integration with services owned by other functional teams and 3rd party systems


* Collaborate with developers across teams and globally, as well as participate in steering teams for developer tools and initiatives


* Analyze, identify risks, and provide technical direction for current and future applications and services supported by the team

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 3+ years of experience leading and/or participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, analysis, design, documentation of functional and technical specifications, development, prototyping, testing, deployment) to deliver high quality, scalable and complex business solutions


* 3+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language


* Experience implementing large scale cloud-native applications and/or custom developed solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent


* Experience being a leader of technical resources on a custom software application team


* Experience men...