Staff Software Engineer - Python+React
John Deere2 days ago
Poznań, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical leader for the Global Payroll engineering team by shaping architecture, standards, code reviews, delivery approaches, and engineering priorities.
- Translate business needs into technical solutions, delivery plans, and measurable priorities in collaboration with product managers, architects, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Lead software development and integrations involving ADP Global View, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, and HR/payroll processes.
- Design applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and distributed systems while balancing reliability, security, performance, cost, and maintainability.
- Provide hands-on technical coaching through code reviews, pairing, testing strategy, reusable patterns, and modern development practices.
- Advance DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, secure deployments, and production operations.
- Monitor and resolve complex software defects and improve production reliability through monitoring, logging, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Use modern engineering tools and AI-assisted development capabilities where appropriate to improve productivity and software quality.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, reduce technical debt, and build alignment with product, architecture, security, and operations partners.
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 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, 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, mentor engineers, influence architecture, reduce technical debt, and make pragmatic tradeoffs.
- Good understanding of HR/LR, time, and payroll processes, including reporting needs and Databricks/EDL setup.
- Strong English communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills and 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, A2A frameworks, AI-assisted engineering tools, monitoring-tool configuration, stakeholder collaboration, and Lean Service management.
Benefits
- Employment contract with flexible working hours, including a start time between 7:00 and 10:00 AM.
- Hybrid work model at Business Garden in Poznań.
- Professional development opportunities and support for internal career growth.
- Employee referral program and additional vacation days based on length of employment.
- 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.
- Daily use of a foreign language in an international working 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
John Deere designs and manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment, engines, and turf/golf machinery, along with precision agriculture software and connected services. It sells machines, parts, and subscriptions through a worldwide dealer network and offers customer financing via John Deere Financial. Founded in 1837 and headquartered in Moline, Illinois, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: DE).