Senior Software Engineer

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, The terms of the applicable benefit plans, and all company actions administering or interpreting these plans, continue to control. Deere & Company reserves the right to suspend, amend, modify, or terminate the Plan(s) in any manner at any time, including the right to modify or eliminate any cost-sharing between the company and participants. Changes, which can be made at any time, are made by action of the company’s board of directors, or to the extent authorized by resolution of its board of directors, or by the Deere & Company Compensation Committee. In the event of a conflict between the language of the official Plan Documents and this document, the language of the official Plan Documents will control.

• 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

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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