Senior Software Engineer

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, including disabled & veterans.

Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa -
Function: Technology (CA)
Title: Senior Software Engineer - 119841
Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position

Your Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer - Revolving Credit & Merchant Experience for JD IT Financial located in Johnston, IA, you will provide technical leadership across multiple teams and initiatives, with accountability for system design, engineering excellence, and long-term platform evolution. Additionally, you will:

• Define and drive end-to-end technical architecture for revolving credit and merchant experience platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and regulatory compliance across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure
• Lead design and evolution of core backend systems built with Java and Node.js, supporting complex financial workflows including credit origination, underwriting, merchant onboarding, payments, pricing, and servicing lifecycle management
• Establish architectural direction for customer-facing applications using React and Next.js, ensuring high performance, accessibility, consistency, and seamless user experiences across merchant and credit journeys
• Drive early technical discovery and decision-making, evaluating architectural options, identifying risks, aligning trade-offs, and providing clear technical direction to enable predictable delivery by engineering teams
• Own cloud architecture and operational strategy on AWS, defining reference architectures and best practices leveraging services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS/SNS, with a strong focus on reliability, security, observability, and cost optimization
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Business leaders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into cohesive, scalable technical solutions that balance innovation, speed, and risk
• Define and enforce security and compliance standards, ensuring secure handling of financial data through strong authentication and authorization models, encryption strategies, PCI compliance, auditability, and defense-in-depth practices
• Drive platform consistency and reuse by defining shared services, common libraries, API standards, UI frameworks, and architectural patterns across merchant and credit ecosystems
• Set expectations for production readiness and operational excellence, including service-level objectives, monitoring and alerting standards, incident response practices, disaster recovery strategies, and continuous resilience improvements
• Act as a technical multiplier, mentoring senior engineers, influencing cross-team design decisions, leading design and architecture reviews, and raising the overall technical bar of the organization

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• Java (5 or more Years of Experience)
  Deep expertise in designing large-scale, distributed, and high-availability backend systems using modern Java (8 or more)
  Mastery of the Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem, with hands-on ownership of REST APIs, security architecture, configuration management, and service frameworks
  Advanced knowledge of concurrency, JVM internals, performance tuning, memory management, and garbage collection
  Proven history of owning system architecture, leading cross-team technical reviews, and driving complex production issue investigations and root cause analysis
  Strong experience integrating messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching strategies, and external/internal service dependencies
• Node.js (5 or more Years of Experience)
  Expert-level experience delivering event-driven, distributed backend services using Node.js and TypeScript at scale
  Deep understanding of asynchronous programming, event loop mechanics, non-blocking I/O, and performance optimization patterns
  Proven leadership in designing API platforms, including REST and GraphQL, shared middleware, and standardized security models
  Extensive experience with frameworks such as NestJS, Express, or Fastify, including establishing architectural and coding standards across teams
  Ownership of observability, reliability engineering, and major production incident leadership
  
  AWS & Cloud Architecture (5 or more Years of Experience)
  Hands-on leadership designing and governing cloud-native, multi-service architectures on AWS.
  Expert knowledge of EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM, and related services
  Proven ability to define architectures that are secure, highly available, fault tolerant, and cost efficient, aligned with AWS Well-Architected principles
  Strong experience setting standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK, and CI/CD automation
  Ownership of cloud security posture, observability frameworks, compliance controls, and disaster recovery planning
• Front-End Architecture (Next.js / React - 5 or more Years)
  Proven expertise architecting and scaling enterprise-grade frontend platforms using Next.js and React
  Deep knowledge of SSR, SSG, server components, routing strategies, and frontend performance optimization at scale
  Experience defining frontend architecture standards, shared component libraries, and integration patterns with backend services
  Ownership of front-end deployment strategies, build pipelines, and production monitoring and troubleshooting
• Databases & Data Architecture (5 or more Years of Experience)
  Expert-level experience designing relational data models using PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, including transactional integrity and scalability concerns
  Advanced knowledge of SQL optimization, indexing strategies, transaction isolation, and data consistency models
  Strong experience with NoSQL and distributed data stores including DynamoDB, MongoDB, and Redis, with sound architectural decision-making
  Proven ability to design data-intensive systems, manage schema evolution, and ensure reliability, availability, and recoverability at scale
  Leadership in defining caching, replication, backup, and failover strategies

What Makes You Standout

• Strong background in FinTech, particularly Revolving Credit, Merchant POS, Payments, or Lending Platforms
• Experience applying AI-assisted development tools, including Copilot, LLMs, and emerging AI-driven engineering workflows
• Deep familiarity with observability platforms such as New Relic, including metrics strategy, distributed tracing, and proactive monitoring

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• 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

$109,284.00 - $163,920.00 + Benefits

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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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