We're hiring! Kemin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Des Moines, Iowa. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will serve as the highest-level engineering execution contributor on the delivery team — the technical anchor for large project delivery, engineering quality, and team capability. You will lead complex projects end-to-end, run design reviews in collaboration with the Software Architect, enforce engineering standards, mentor all engineers, and own the team's CI/CD and DevOps practice. Where the Architect defines how the team builds, the SE3 is responsible for delivering it.

• Competitive Financial Package: Enjoy a rewarding salary, uncapped bonus opportunities, a 401k match program, and generous paid vacation and holidays.
• Health and Wellness Support: Stay fit and healthy with our fitness reimbursement for the whole family, access to an on-site fitness center, a restaurant offering seasonal fresh food options, and free fresh fruit in break areas.
• Career Development and Advancement: Unlock your potential with opportunities for growth and development throughout your entire career.
• Continued Learning Opportunities: Grow your skills with our in-house learning platforms, offering thousands of training resources both live and online, and take advantage of tuition reimbursement for external post-secondary pursuits.
• Service Opportunities: Make a positive impact with paid time off for service, partnerships with The World Food Programme and Habitat for Humanity, and local community initiatives.

• Lead the design and development of complex features across .NET services, Angular and middleware layers, aligned with Software Architect standards; author technical design documentation and present to the Architect for validation.
• Write and review production-grade code; set the engineering quality bar; enforce coding standards, secure coding practices, and integration patterns defined by the Architect.
• Apply advanced prompt engineering to direct AI tools across code generation, debugging, refactoring, and documentation tasks; evaluate AI agent output for architectural fit and take responsibility for all committed code.

• Serve as the primary technical mentor for SE1 and SE2 engineers; lead onboarding, provide structured code review feedback, and actively support career growth.
• Lead design review meetings for assigned projects; proactively schedule Architect check-ins to validate scalability and design decisions before committing.
• Facilitate team knowledge-sharing sessions and identify skill gaps; coach engineers on prompt engineering, AI tool usage, and responsible AI practices.

• Build, maintain, and continuously improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines implementing pipeline templates and standards.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure within Azure that follows approved architectural patterns; own observability solutions across team services.
• Enforce deployment standards, branching strategies, and environment promotion gates as established by the Software Architect.

• Enforce the testing strategy defined by the Software Architect; lead quality execution across all projects including unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives; track and drive reduction of defect rates, test coverage gaps, and reliability incidents.
• Conduct performance engineering and capacity planning for critical enterprise and data pipeline services.

• Serve as the primary engineering liaison between the delivery team and the Software Architect; ensure architectural direction is understood and implemented correctly across all engineers.
• Represent the engineering team in discussions with IT leadership, project managers, and business stakeholders; translate technical constraints and delivery status clearly.
• Contribute delivery feasibility insight and ground-level engineering perspective to the Architect's technology evaluations and standards decisions

• Maintain deep expertise in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, .NET roadmap, and AI tooling evolution including emerging agent frameworks and prompt engineering best practices.
• Evaluate new AI development tools and agent capabilities; assess fitness for the team's workflow and bring recommendations to the Software Architect
• Represent Kemin IT in relevant professional communities; bring external best practices and emerging trends back to the team.

• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field with 7+ years of experience including 2+ as a tech lead
• Expert-level C# / .NET proficiency with a track record of building and delivering production enterprise systems.
• Deep Angular and TypeScript expertise including performance optimization and enterprise-scale module architecture.
• Expert SQL Server skills: schema design, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps mastery: pipeline authoring, release strategies, and environment management.
• Strong prompt engineering skills; experience directing AI tools for complex development tasks and evaluating AI agent output for quality and fit.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Azure resource provisioning, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), and resource governance/management (e.g., RBAC, policies, tagging, cost management).
• Leads technical direction for the team; formally mentors all engineers; owns onboarding and capability building; coaches on prompt engineering and responsible AI use.