Staff Software Engineer - Mobile (iOS) - Sentera

John Deere; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 123,804 - 185,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive base pay

401K and retirement benefits

Healthcare benefits with HSA

Tuition assistance

On-site gyms at Deere locations

Employee discounts and purchase plans

Paid vacation

Job summary

John Deere seeks a Staff Software Engineer - Mobile (iOS) to own and lead FieldAgent Mobile and new apps for Sentera sensors and hardware. You will drive architecture, design, and testing, collaborating with product, UX, and engineering to deliver impactful software for farming customers.

You will mentor others, participate in customer visits, and help shape the mobile platform roadmap, with travel 2–5 times per year.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on iOS development experience.
• Proficient in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and modern REST/GraphQL integration.
• Experience with unit/integration testing frameworks and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead and sole developer of FieldAgent Mobile (iOS) and other mobile apps for Sentera hardware.
• Drive product discovery, design, testing, and delivery to advance drone scouting for Deere customers.
• Collaborate with Product Management and UX to understand customer problems and validate solutions.
• Define and drive mobile software architecture and design patterns; participate in customer visits.

Skills

Swift

UIKit

SwiftUI

Swift Actors

NSURLSession

iOS development

Unit testing

Integration testing

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

• Android development

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.

Primary Location: United States (US) - Minnesota - St Paul

Function: Technology (CA)

Title: Staff Software Engineer - Mobile (iOS) - Sentera - 122525

Onsite/Remote: Onsite Position

Your Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead and sole developer of FieldAgent Mobile, an iOS application used by drone pilots to plan and execute drone flights to scout agricultural fields. You will also lead design and development of one or more new mobile applications enabling customers to configure and run Sentera sensors/cameras and related hardware products. The current technical lead is moving into a new role at Sentera. While they will be available long term for knowledge transfer and consultation, you will own the existing and new applications.


• Drive impact as part of an empowered product team composed of Product Management, UX, and Engineering implementing the Product Operating Model. You will contribute to every stage of product development: discovering, designing, testing, delivering, and maintaining innovative software solutions to advance scouting through drone flights and field walks for John Deere's customers.


• Collaborate with Product Management and UX to develop a deep understanding of customer problems including participation in customer calls and in-person customer visits, including both internal customers (Sentera's own pilots) and external customers.


• Combine your technical expertise and creativity to propose solutions, develop prototypes, test prototypes with customers, and evaluate feasibility.


• Following validation of customer value, technical feasibility, usability, and business viability (the discovery phase), design, code, test, deliver, and maintain software as part of a team passionate about software quality (the delivery phase).


• Define and drive mobile software architecture and design patterns.


• Perform developer testing of your software by flying drones.


• Support a culture of software craftsmanship best practices including testing, Continuous Integration/Deployment, peer code review, automation, and technical debt management.


• Leverage AI tools such as Copilot (VS Code or CLI) thoughtfully to balance productivity with architecture quality, code readability, and project maintainability.


• Provide coaching and mentoring to others within the technical discipline.


• Serve as a technical advisor in the solution of complex problems spanning the cloud backend team, other client app teams, and the embedded/hardware team.


• Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability issues.


• Contribute to long-term mobile platform strategy and technical roadmap.


• If you have experience in C# .NET, collaborate on high level design and provide peer code review for the tech lead and sole developer of Sentera's Windows application.


• Travel to participate in 2-5 customer visits per year for discovery and 1-2 internal conferences/trainings per year. Travel includes day trips and overnight trips lasting 1-2 nights.

VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position

What Skills You Need

• 6 or more years of professional software development experience


• 2 or more years of hands-on iOS development experience


• Strong proficiency in all of the following:
  
  
  
  • Swift
  
  
  • UIKit
  
  
  • SwiftUI
  
  
  • Swift Actors
  
  
  • NSURLSession for modern REST and/or GQL integration
  
  
  
  


• Experience with:
  
  
  
  • Unit/integration testing frameworks
  
  
  • Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
  
  
  
  


• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional engineering teams


• Passion for working with customers to understand and solve their problems.


• Ability and enthusiasm to work independently as the technical lead and sole developer on a mobile software application while collaborating with engineers responsible for the back end and adjacent client applications (web and PC).


• Skilled in written and verbal interpersonal communications, open-minded listening, balanced assertiveness, conflict resolution, and tact.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Cross-platform frameworks such as React Native or Flutter


• Swift NIO


• CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions


• Geospatial data processing and visualization: presenting geographically-located data on a map, basemaps, vector data, raster data, GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefiles, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFS (COGs), rasterio, or geopandas.


• Drone flight applications


• Integrating with hardware, sensors, or IoT devices


• Precision agriculture and digital agronomy


• C# .NET and/or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)


• Android development


• Embracing the Product Operating Model with an emphasis on spending time talking to customers to understand their problems during the discovery process.


• Using a Generative AI tool such as Copilot as a software development productivity tool.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, a related technical field, or equivalent experience in a related career field.

What You’ll Get

• 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

$123,804.00 - $185,700.00 + Benefits

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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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