About the role
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on our core business platform — the system that runs settlements, payments, invoices, contracts, inventory, and related operations for a large agricultural cooperative.
This is a hybrid IC role: you will deliver product features and fixes alongside work that improves how we build and ship — automated testing, CI/CD, reliability, security hygiene, and day-to-day engineering quality. Much of the work is in a long-lived production codebase: you will change existing behavior carefully, refactor toward testability, and leave the next person in a better place. You will partner with existing engineers and an external engineering partner, use AI-assisted development as a standard part of your workflow, and help raise the bar for how the team ships.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain features across the .NET stack (C#, desktop and service layers) and SQL Server, including business logic that lives in stored procedures
- Refactor existing C# and SQL as you go — characterize current behavior with tests, improve structure incrementally, and avoid big-bang rewrites
- Own work end-to-end: understand the business path, implement the change, add automated coverage, and see it through review and release
- Strengthen delivery: improve build/test pipelines, migration safety, and the practices that make small, frequent changes the default
- Grow automated tests on high-value paths (unit, SQL/integration, API) so confidence comes from the pipeline, not from babysitting releases
- Contribute to Azure-hosted services and supporting infrastructure with a security- and operations-aware mindset
- Use AI coding assistants daily — for implementation, review, tests, and investigation — and help the team adopt effective patterns
- Collaborate with employees and external engineering partners; mentor peers through clear design, review, and documentation of important decisions
What we are looking for
Required
- 7+ years professional software development experience, including substantial C# / .NET
- Strong T-SQL and SQL Server experience; comfortable reading and changing complex stored procedures and data models
- Experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps preferred) and a habit of shipping behind automated checks
- Working knowledge of Azure services commonly used with .NET applications
- Experience owning and refactoring large existing production codebases, not only building new services
- Proven practice writing automated tests and improving coverage on systems that already run in production
- Fluency with AI-assisted software development (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent) as a core part of how you work — not an occasional experiment
- Ability to work hybrid and collaborate effectively with a distributed team
- Must be able to attend occasional in-person meetings in our Omaha office, our headquarters in Aurora, Nebraska, and make occasional trips to other offices as needed
Preferred
- Background in ERP, accounting, payments, inventory, or other financial / transactional systems
- Experience with WinForms, WCF, Service Fabric, or similar enterprise desktop/service architectures
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code, application security hardening, or observability (logging, metrics, alerts)
- Agricultural, commodity, or cooperative industry experience
Success in the first year looks like
- You are a trusted owner on meaningful product work and on platform improvements that make delivery safer and faster
- High-value paths have better automated coverage, and merges rely on required checks rather than hope
- Peers can pick up areas you touch; important behavior is captured in tests and documentation
- AI-assisted development is part of how the team ships, with clear habits around review and verification
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Medical (PPO & High-Deductible plans), Dental, & Vision insurance
- Flexible/HSA Spending Plans
- Life Insurance
- 401K Plan with match
- Short-term & Long-term Disability
- EAP
- Cancer Insurance
- Vacation, Sick, & Paid holidays
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional software development experience, including substantial C#/.NET experience
- Strong T-SQL and SQL Server experience, including complex stored procedures and data models
- Experience with CI/CD; Azure DevOps preferred
- Working knowledge of Azure services commonly used with .NET applications
- Experience owning and refactoring large existing production codebases
- Proven experience writing automated tests and improving coverage on production systems
- Fluency with AI-assisted software development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent
- Ability to work hybrid and collaborate effectively with a distributed team
- Ability to attend occasional in-person meetings in Omaha, Aurora, Nebraska, and other offices as needed
- Background in ERP, accounting, payments, inventory, or other financial or transactional systems
- Experience with WinForms, WCF, Service Fabric, or similar enterprise desktop/service architectures
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code, application security hardening, or observability
- Agricultural, commodity, or cooperative industry experience
What We Do
Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative established in 1908. It provides essential goods and services to over 70 rural communities across five states, specializing in marketing and farm supplies. Its offerings include grain operations, seed, fertilizer, crop protection, and energy products, all dedicated to supporting the success and sustainability of its member-owners.
