Staff Software Engineer - Python+React

About the job

There are over 8 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.

Due to the development of John Deere Polska Business Service Center in Poznań we are currently seeking candidates for the position of:

Staff Software Engineer - Python+React

Poznań, Poland

Your responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical leader for the Global Payroll engineering team, shaping architecture, engineering standards, code reviews and delivery approaches for scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Partner with product managers, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into outcome-driven technical solutions, delivery plans, and measurable engineering priorities.
• Lead integration and software development activities around ADP Global View and SuccessFactors.
• Participate in discussions with the Scrum teams to develop technical solutions to satisfy business requirements related to HR/Payroll using SAP HCM technology.
• Lead and guide our business partners in finding and implementing the E2E integration setup between SuccessFactors and ADP Global View Payroll.
• Lead design discussions regarding applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and distributed systems, balancing reliability, security, performance, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to conceptualize products and services, leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions.
• Raise engineering quality through hands-on technical coaching, code reviews, pairing, testing strategy, reusable patterns, and modern software development practices.
• Advance DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, secure deployment patterns, and reliable production operations.
• Monitor, identify, and correct the most-complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software.
• Use modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development capabilities where appropriate, to improve developer productivity, accelerate problem solving, and strengthen software quality while applying sound engineering judgment.

Our requirements:

• 7 or more years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting complex production applications.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language commonly used for enterprise software development, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with software architecture and system design, including APIs, event-driven or integration patterns, distributed systems, data modeling, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Experience building and operating solutions using services from AWS.
• Experience with DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization, infrastructure as code, and environment automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar.
• Working knowledge of secure software development practices, including identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, dependency management, and security controls built into delivery pipelines.
• Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, logging, tracing, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to provide staff-level technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and making pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, quality, security, and sustainability.
• Good understanding in HR/LR, Time- and Payroll processes.
• Experience with identifying reporting needs / setting up Databricks / EDL.
• Very strong interpersonal communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills in English.
• Openness to work with global Product teams.
• Experience with solution implementations incorporating AI Tech Stack.

Nice to have:

• Working knowledge of SAP SuccessFactors global platform.
• Proven experience with building reusable and scalable platform capabilities.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications, reducing technical debt, improving maintainability, and evolving applications toward cloud-native or modular architectures.
• Hands on experience with AI agents or A2A frameworks.
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools, coding assistants, or agent-based automation responsibly to improve delivery speed, code quality, documentation, testing, or developer workflows.
• Strong coaching mindset with a demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction without formal authority, and build alignment across product, architecture, security, and operations partners.
• Experience collaborating with multiple business stakeholders to provide information technology solutions.
• Experience configuring and implementing system execution/quality monitoring tools.
• Proven experience in adapting to the change management principles like Lean Service management.
• Continuous learning mindset with curiosity about emerging software engineering practices, AI-enabled development, secure delivery, cloud services, and developer productivity improvements.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience in a related career field.

What we offer:

• Employment contract.
• Strong support for work-life balance, including flexible working hours (start time between 7:00 and 10:00 AM) and a hybrid work model at Business Garden in Poznan.
• Opportunities for professional development within the company, with strong support for internal career growth.
• Employee referral program.
• Additional vacation days based on length of employment.
• Holiday allowance when taking at least 2 weeks off.
• Daily use of a foreign language in a friendly international working environment.
• Private medical care, life insurance, a sports card, meal allowance, language courses, a social fund budget, and various additional fun events in our office.
• Free access to our e-learning platform, featuring over 1,000 courses, including offerings from LinkedIn Learning and Coursera.

Please attach an English version of your CV.

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 qualified individual with disability.