Staff Software Engineer - Mobile (iOS) - Sentera at John Deere
St Paul, MN
$123,804–$185,700from the description
Jul 28, 2026
St Paul, MN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a hands-on iOS engineering role at John Deere's Sentera division in St. Paul, MN, serving as the technical lead and sole developer of FieldAgent Mobile — an iOS app used by drone pilots to plan and execute agricultural scouting flights. The engineer will also lead design and development of new mobile apps for Sentera sensor/camera hardware, define mobile architecture, and collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, and backend/embedded teams.
Senior level · 6+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 85 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 20–130
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,799 (middle half $105,306–$165,164). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title says 'Staff Software Engineer' but the actual scope — sole developer and technical lead of a single application, 6+ years total experience, 2+ years iOS — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a Staff-level role with cross-team architectural authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelors … or equivalent experience in a related career field,' so no hard degree gate is set.
NSURLSession is listed as a required proficiency specifically for REST and/or GraphQL integration; GraphQL is captured as an alternative since the posting uses 'and/or'.
Geospatial items (GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefiles, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs, rasterio, geopandas, basemaps, vector/raster data) all appear under 'What Makes You Stand Out' (preferred). Only the most concrete named tools are captured; the broader descriptive phrases are omitted.
C# .NET and WPF appear under 'What Makes You Stand Out' and are explicitly framed as conditional ('If you have experience in C# .NET…'), so they are marked preferred.
VISA sponsorship is explicitly not available for this position.
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