Your Job
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is currently looking for a Sr. Software Developer to work with our Information Technology (IT) Team at our Wichita, KS headquarters. The IT team is a vital component in KES' strategy to improve business performance through the application of technology and profitably transform our business. Working as an integrated group with the Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Financial teams that design and maintain facilities, our team functions as a startup entity within our enterprise to develop innovative solutions and build a market for their solutions through transforming KES work processes.
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Our Team
As a member of the Information Technology team, you will need to thrive in a fast-paced and innovative environment. You will collaborate to develop solutions and prove their value through experimentation and scalable deployment in our business. Collaboration, creativity, and focus on attaining positive business results will be necessary skills. Working in an Agile environment, you will need to be resourceful and capable of partnering with market solution providers that can accelerate the progress of our business objectives.
What You Will Do
- Perform software development tasks and contribute to the overall lifecycle of our projects
- Implement procedures to actively improve software design and development processes
- Take part in sprint planning and execution, as part of an agile product team
- Challenge technological and architectural decisions to help better understand and improve our systems
- Document processes, code, and architecture for knowledge sharing with other teams and internal customers
- Grow and develop in modern technologies, while possessing the drive and ability to support legacy software
- Ability to prioritize, organize, and coordinate simultaneous tasks/projects
- Experiment with new technologies and solutions, identifying ways we can use technology to create superior value for our customers
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Progressive production experience building services in C# .NET Core
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or other cloud hosting providers
- Experience creating and implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Background with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience in unit testing frameworks such as NUnit, xUnit, or MSTest
- Competency in creating user interfaces with various technologies such as React, Angular, Blazor
- Experience in writing SQL queries against relational databases (SQL Server, Postgres SQL, etc.)
- Proficiency with Git or other version control technologies
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's Degree with a Computer Science, MIS, or Technology focus
- Experience with AWS services (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, RDS)
- Experience developing Generative AI models and other agentic development
- High initiative and a passion for driving rapid technical advancement
- Ability to experiment and iteratively find the best technical solution to a business problem
- Collaborate with a diverse IT team including business analysts, project managers, architects, developers, or vendors to create or optimize innovative technologies and solutions
- Experience supporting a manufacturing/engineering environment
- Be able to communicate complex solutions to stakeholders and other team members
- Strong conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Experience working with global teams
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).