Software Engineer
John Deere1 day ago
Poznań, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader for the Global Payroll engineering team by shaping architecture, engineering standards, code reviews, and delivery approaches.
- Translate complex business needs into technical solutions, delivery plans, and measurable engineering priorities with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Lead software development and integration activities involving ADP Global View, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, and end-to-end payroll integration setups.
- Lead design discussions for applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and distributed systems while balancing reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
- Provide 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, and reliable production operations.
- Monitor, diagnose, and correct complex software defects and improve production reliability through monitoring, logging, tracing, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Use AI-assisted development capabilities and modern engineering tools where appropriate to improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, reduce technical debt, and make pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, quality, security, and sustainability.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting complex production applications.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern enterprise programming language, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.
- 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 AWS services.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization, infrastructure as code, and environment automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
- Working knowledge of secure software development practices, identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, dependency management, and delivery-pipeline security controls.
- Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, logging, tracing, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to provide staff-level technical leadership through architecture influence, mentoring, technical-debt reduction, and cross-team decision-making.
- Good understanding of HR/LR, time, and payroll processes, plus experience identifying reporting needs and setting up Databricks/EDL.
- Very strong English interpersonal communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills, with openness to working with global product teams.
- Experience with solution implementations incorporating AI technology.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience in a related career field.
- Preferred qualifications include SAP SuccessFactors experience, reusable platform capability development, legacy modernization, cloud-native architecture, AI agents or A2A frameworks, AI-assisted engineering tools, system execution/quality monitoring tools, stakeholder collaboration, and Lean Service management principles.
Benefits
- Employment contract with a hybrid work model at Business Garden in Poznań.
- Flexible working hours with a start time between 7:00 and 10:00 AM.
- Professional development opportunities and support for internal career growth.
- Employee referral program, additional vacation days based on tenure, and holiday allowance when taking at least two weeks off.
- Private medical care, life insurance, sports card, meal allowance, language courses, social fund budget, and office events.
- Foreign-language use in an international work environment.
- Free access to an e-learning platform with more than 1,000 courses, including LinkedIn Learning and Coursera.
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About John Deere
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never driven a tractor, mowed a lawn, or operated a dozer. With John Deere’s role in helping produce food, fiber, fuel, and infrastructure, we work for every single person on the planet. It all started nearly 200 years ago with a steel plow. Today, John Deere drives innovation in agriculture, construction, forestry, turf, power systems, and more.