Staff Software Engineer

John Deere • Johnston, IA

7d • $123,804 - $185,700 • Onsite

About The Position

John Deere is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for JD Financial in Johnston, IA. This role is focused on driving architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence across multiple teams. The engineer will act as a technical multiplier, influencing architecture, driving long-term technical vision while balancing near-term delivery, leading design reviews, authoring ADRs, setting engineering standards, mentoring senior engineers and tech leads, and serving as a trusted partner for complex technical trade-offs and high-impact decisions. This is an onsite position.

Requirements

• 7 or more years designing and building large scale, distributed backend systems
• Expert in Java (Spring Boot) and Node.js, including API design, concurrency, performance tuning, and service reliability
• Proven ownership of backend architecture, design reviews, and production incident resolution
• Experience defining service boundaries, API standards, and backward compatible evolution strategies
• 5 or more years leading cloud native architecture on AWS
• Deep knowledge of EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and IAM
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and CI/CD pipelines
• Ownership of cloud security, cost optimization, observability, and disaster recovery strategies
• 5 or more years with React, including hooks, context, performance optimization, and state management
• 4 or more years with Next.js, including SSR, SSG, server components, routing, and data fetching patterns
• Proven ability to define frontend architecture, shared patterns, and performance standards across teams
• 4 or more years of deep TypeScript experience in large codebases
• Expertise with strict typing, generics, discriminated unions, and type safe APIs
• Ability to define robust domain models and enforce correctness via tooling (ESLint, CI, tsconfig)
• 7 or more years designing and operating data intensive systems
• Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis)
• Expertise in schema design, migrations, performance tuning, and high availability strategies

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Technology Computer science or related fields

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence across multiple teams
• Acts as a technical multiplier, influencing architecture across multiple teams
• Drives long term technical vision while balancing near term delivery
• Leads design reviews, authors ADRs, and sets engineering standards
• Mentors senior engineers and tech leads
• Trusted partner for complex technical trade offs and high impact decisions

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
• Vacation and Holiday Pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree