Leading Software Developer

At John Deere, we innovate to drive productivity and protect our planet. We are seeking a talented individual to join our team as a Staff Software Engineer.

As a key member of our agile product team, you will lead product design by providing technical leadership. Your responsibilities will include planning, coordinating, coding, and testing to deliver functionality of a complex nature on the complete product or products it supports.

This role involves designing significantly more complex parts of a system independently. You will provide coaching and mentoring to others within the technical discipline and be recognized as a technical advisor in the solution of complex problems.

Major duties include:

• Developing existing and new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement;
• Monitoring, identifying, and correcting the most-complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software;
• Working effectively with cross-functional teams to conceptualize products and services, leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions;
• Designing and overseeing the functionality, usability, and accessibility of business-critical portals/websites using content creation and management tools as well as digital media to ensure that technical continuity is maintained and development standards are met;
• Discussing and recommending technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/applications software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users' needs;
• Contributing to and maintaining a roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements;
• Providing fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly;
• Delivering small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan;
• Designing distribution of database resources and providing physical modeling and design services to tune database applications for optimum performance.

Required skills and qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent fields;
• Advanced English (broad vocabulary, strong grammar, able to lead meetings, argue, negotiate, and conduct training sessions);
• Experience as a skilled developer, writing code for multiple applications (NodeJS, TypeScript, Python);
• Experience with DevOps practices or Extreme Programming (XP) as part of development;
• Experience managing application operations and infrastructure;
• Experience with cloud solution providers (such as AWS, etc.) to host applications and services;
• Experience in consuming and writing APIs;
• Experience working within a developer community;
• Strong communication skills.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• Experience with various DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub & GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, linting tools, etc.);
• Experience with multiple programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Go, React, etc.);
• Experience using containers for server orchestration (e.g., Docker, ECS/K8s, etc.);
• Experience contributing to open-source platforms/tools;
• Experience with best technical practices, such as Code Review, Clean Code, and microservices;
• Understanding of event-driven architecture systems;
• Experience with TypeScript;
• Experience with Internal Developer Portals;
• Knowledge of OAUTH and OIDC.

Benefits include:

• Remuneration variável;
• Plano de Saúde;
• Plano Odontológico;
• Seguro de Vida;
• Previdência Privada;
• Benefício Ótica;
• Reembolso vacina;
• Universidade Corporativa;
• Wellhub (Gympass);
• Dependendo da unidade, você terá restaurante no local, vale refeição ou alimentação;
• Auxílio farmácia;
• Entre outros

Nosso processo seletivo é flexível em termos de tempo, então não se preocupe. Nossa equipe de Talent Acquisition está comprometida em proporcionar a melhor experiência para você.