Senior Software Engineer Iowa, Technology; CA Posted ago

Position: Senior Software Engineer Iowa,United States Technology (CA) Posted 19 hours ago
## Senior Software Engineer Iowa,United States Apply Now Find out how well you match with this jobJob ID119841

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.
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Location:

** United States (US) - Iowa
- ** Function:
** Technology (CA)  
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* Title:

** Senior Software Engineer - 119841
* *** Onsite/Remote:
** Onsite Position*##
** Your Responsibilities
** 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
** VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position**##
** What Skills You Need
*** 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…