Engineering Manager - AI Solutions

As an Engineering Manager for Dealer Channel AI Solutions you will be a key leader in delivering AI and Automation solutions that enable our John Deere Dealers in Europe to  optimize their operations and run profitable businesses. Our Engineering Managers are technical leaders - designing and developing production software, championing software development practices, and mentoring/coaching their team members.  An ideal candidate will have a passion for technical leadership and for delivering value via high quality software solutions.  

Your responsibilities: 

• Lead a software delivery team to enable the expansion of our existing AI Platform to Europe and expand the Platform for European specific business needs


• Provide engineering leadership in web application development defining design best practices, utilizing the existing AI and Automation platform, and analyzing application performance


• Collaborate closely with Engineering Leads, Product Managers, Architects, User Experience, and other supporting teams to define product requirements and application designs


• Mentor, coach and develop your direct reports. This includes providing frequent on-going feedback/guidance on individual performance and career development


• Attract, retain, and grow great engineering talent within your team and throughout our organization


• Lead organizational change through adoption of strategic technologies, architectures, best-practices, and tooling in support of software development

Our requirements: 

• Demonstrated experience leading software development teams 


• Demonstrated experience as a primary technical team leader/mentor 


• Demonstrated experience building web-client or server-side applications/services 


• Demonstrated experience with Agile development methodologies including Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration/Deployment 


• Demonstrated experience with build and test pipeline automation, monitoring, and other DevOps methodologies 


• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure   

Nice to have: 

• Experience leading teams providing shared services for multiple teams in an organization 


• Experience as manager, including individual performance management, career development, and hiring 


• Experience with AI technologies and demonstrated experience utilizing them to solve business problems 


• Advanced Computer Science, Engineering, IT-related, or business-related degree   

What we offer:

• Employment contract


• Company car and/or car allowance


• 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 Poznań


• 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, 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