Software Engineer - GROWMARK, Inc. - Bloomington, IL

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services. Headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, GROWMARK owns the FS trademark, which is used by its member cooperatives. GROWMARK also owns and operates SEEDWAY, the largest full-line seed company in the United States. More information is available at growmark.com.

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What Will You Do 

 

You’ll be developing and supporting a variety of different applications that interface with internal business clients, member cooperative staff, transportation personnel, or farmers. Whether it’s supporting our customer portal that generates billions of dollars in revenue for our system, developing new features within one of our mobile apps, or assisting in bringing new projects from concept to reality, our expectation is that you’ll drive the delivery of these developments to production. 

 

In conjunction with business analysts, project managers, and technical leads, you’ll interact with our business stakeholders and end users to help correct current issues, improve existing workflows, or scope out new developments for the future. You will learn how our business operates, determine where we can gain efficiencies, and communicate with the business as a member of a team supporting their operations. 

 

Are you curious, self-motivated, technically agile, and always looking to find efficiencies? So are we, and we’d love for you to help us solve many of the challenging problems presented to us using bleeding-edge technologies. 

 

What Skills are Desired 
 

• Self-motivated, technically agile, strong communication skills. 

• Experience with JavaScript, NodeJS, TypeScript. 

• Experience with VueJS, ReactJS, AngularJS, or a similar front-end JavaScript library. 

• Experience with REST API standards 

• Experience with SQL and databases such as MS SQL Server, Postgres, or similar relational database. 

• Experience using Visual Studio Code 

• Experience with Git and Github 

• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA desired. 

• Experience with AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, CodeBuild) a plus. 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent. 

 

Why Join Us 

 

• Excellent Health and Wellness Benefits – medical, dental, vision, onsite and online nurses, wellness activities, FSA and HSA options.  

• Robust Financial Benefits – fully funded company pension, 401(k) company match, competitive performance-based compensation.  

• Emphasis on Work-Life Balance – generous PTO starting at 3 weeks, 1 paid volunteer day per year, 2 weeks of paid parental leave, and flex work schedules available.  

• Industry Leading Training Opportunities – in-house training, leadership development, and tuition assistance.  

We are an equal opportunity employer, including protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities. Employment may be contingent upon receipt of an acceptable and job-related background check, drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.