Staff Software Engineer (Chicago, IL - Hybrid)

There are over 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we're all about at John Deere. And it's why we're investing in our people and our technology like never before! Here the world's brightest minds are tackling the world's biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we'll put you to work. RIGHT NOW.

 

John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

 

Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois  - Moline  
Function: Technology (CA)
Title: Staff Software Engineer (Chicago, IL - Hybrid) - 104241 
Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position

 

  

This position is eligible for a flexible work schedule arrangement at the present time. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and remains subject to change. 

Your Responsibilities

 

As a Staff Software Engineer for Deere & Company World Headquarters located in Chicago, Illinois you will be responsible for designing, developing, and coding end to end digital products that are consumed at and by our factory teams to support their operations. In addition to being an engineer on the team, you will:

 

• Evaluate, design, and implement solutions to improve cost, quality, and performance of software applications
• Collaborate with other relevant stakeholders and team members to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs
• Execute necessary documentation, as directed, or needed
• Follow industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
• Coaches junior engineers and helps the engineering manager with strong engineering practices

 

VISA sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

What Skills You Need

 

• 8 Years of proven experience in the design, development, testing and integration of high complex software solutions leveraging change management processes.
• Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
• Has an expert understanding of software engineering principles, can apply the principles to complex situations, solve complex problems, conduct research/break new ground, develop new applications, and provide expert support for other practitioners.
• Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation. - Performs more complex functions, understands principles, may teach others.
• Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment.
• Extremely proficient in cloud technologies and implementing them (lambda, Kubernetes, Terraform, gateway etc), CI/CD processes, in depth understanding of API design and authentication
• Understanding of infrastructure as code using terraform or CloudFormation
• Advanced knowledge of modern web application development, mobile technologies – responsive and reactive design.
• Strong experience with software test automation techniques (Test Driven Development) and framework (Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Cypress,) (2+ years)
• Experience designing and developing microservices, micro-front ends, event driven architecture, relational and non-relational databases
• Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum team environment
• Strong understanding and application of system design capability that leads to scalable, fault tolerant and resilient designs
• Experience with observability implementation

Note: Primary Tech Stack: react, node.js, Typescript, JAVA, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform etc Observability platforms like New Relic, ELK, Grafana

 

 

What Makes You Stand Out

 

• Customer centricity – ability to thin slice value delivery in complex systems
• Ability to make technical decisions that meet the quality, performance, security and cost goals
• Experience with presenting and sharing content in engineering/architecture forums
• Strong collaboration, communication, influence, and inclusion skills
• Track record of introducing emerging technologies into products which produced significant realized benefits

 

 

Interpersonal, Leadership and Teaming Competencies

• Passionate