Staff Software Engineer - Python+React

Our requirements

• 7 or more years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting complex production applications.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language commonly used for enterprise software development, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar.
• Demonstrated 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 services from AWS.
• Experience with DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization, infrastructure as code, and environment automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar.
• Working knowledge of secure software development practices, including identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, dependency management, and security controls built into delivery pipelines.
• Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, logging, tracing, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to provide staff-level technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and making pragmatic tradeoffs across speed, quality, security, and sustainability.
• Good understanding in HR/LR, Time- and Payroll processes.
• Experience with identifying reporting needs / setting up Databricks / EDL.
• Very strong interpersonal communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills in English.
• Openness to work with global Product teams.
• Experience with solution implementations incorporating AI Tech Stack.

Optional

• Working knowledge of SAP SuccessFactors global platform.
• Proven experience with building reusable and scalable platform capabilities.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications, reducing technical debt, improving maintainability, and evolving applications toward cloud-native or modular architectures.
• Hands on experience with AI agents or A2A frameworks.
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools, coding assistants, or agent-based automation responsibly to improve delivery speed, code quality, documentation, testing, or developer workflows.
• Strong coaching mindset with a demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction without formal authority, and build alignment across product, architecture, security, and operations partners.
• Experience collaborating with multiple business stakeholders to provide information technology solutions.
• Experience configuring and implementing system execution/quality monitoring tools.
• Proven experience in adapting to the change management principles like Lean Service management.
• Continuous learning mindset with curiosity about emerging software engineering practices, AI-enabled development, secure delivery, cloud services, and developer productivity improvements.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience in a related career field.

Your responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader for the Global Payroll engineering team, shaping architecture, engineering standards, code reviews and delivery approaches for scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Partner with product managers, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into outcome-driven technical solutions, delivery plans, and measurable engineering priorities.
• Lead integration and software development activities around ADP Global View and SuccessFactors.
• Participate in discussions with the Scrum teams to develop technical solutions to satisfy business requirements related to HR/Payroll using SAP HCM technology.
• Lead and guide our business partners in finding and implementing the E2E integration setup between SuccessFactors and ADP Global View Payroll.
• Lead design discussions regarding applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and distributed systems, balancing reliability, security, performance, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to conceptualize products and services, leveraging data to drive original design ideas and decisions.
• Raise engineering quality through 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 patterns, and reliable production operations.
• Monitor, identify, and correct the most-complex software defects to maintain fully functioning applications software.
• Use modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development capabilities where appropriate, to improve developer productivity, accelerate problem solving, and strengthen software quality while applying sound engineering judgment.

About the project

What we offer

• Employment contract.
• Strong support for work-life balance, including flexible working hours (start time between 7:00 and 10:00 AM) and a hybrid work model at Business Garden in Poznan.
• Opportunities for professional development within the company, with strong support for internal career growth.
• Employee referral program.
• Additional vacation days based on length of employment.
• Holiday allowance when taking at least 2 weeks off.
• Daily use of a foreign language in a friendly international working environment.
• Private medical care, life insurance, a sports card, meal allowance, language courses, a social fund budget, and various additional fun events in our office.
• Free access to our e-learning platform, featuring over 1,000 courses, including offerings from LinkedIn Learning and Coursera.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• computer available for private use
• saving & investment scheme
• corporate library
• video games at work
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• holiday funds
• sharing the costs of holidays for kids
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• family picnics

Recruitment stages

• 1.
  Technical Interview
• 2.
  Behavioral Interview

John Deere Polska Sp. z o.o.