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) – IL – Chicago
Function: Technology
Title: Senior Software Engineer - 2026015
Onsite/Remote: Onsite Position
Your Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer for John Deere in Chicago, IL, you will:
- Develop data model and data pipeline, build rest APIs to provide data to downstream systems;
- Perform debugging and fixing application issues, root cause analysis and help in proactive/preventive maintenance;
- Work as Agile team member and participate in back log refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, sprit retrospective;
- Follow Security by design principles to define security framework around data pipelines and APIs;
- Help new team member onboarding;
- Analyze business needs and determine software specifications;
- Lead design review activities to verify and demonstrate high-quality output for the data products and digital products;
- Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to ensure that features meet business needs;
- Collaborate with architecture team and principal engineers to develop coding standards, data pipeline standards, etc.;
- Collaborate with engineers to improve quality, cost, and help in developing efficient software applications;
- Lead efforts to implement best practices for software development, test automation and CI/CD;
- Follow industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation;
- Follow Security by design principles to design security framework around data pipelines and APIs;
- Lead effort to setup team member onboarding processes and guidelines;
- Mentor software engineers within the team and across multiple products.
What Skills You Need
- 5 years of experience in perform data products design, development, and maintenance of scalable ETL solutions using (Abinitio, Talend, UNIX, SQL, AWS Services, Python, Apache Spark), including data modeling, and query optimization
- 5 years of experience in provide leadership in full SDLC execution for applications, including requirement analysis, architecture design, development, integration, mentoring, code reviews, cross-team leadership, ownership of delivery, and end-to-end testing