Lead Software Engineer

Caterpillar•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership in design, development, testing and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform hosted on AWS. This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.

Requirements

Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Extensive experience software development experience using Java 17 or higher and SpringBoot RESTful API development.
Extensive experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
Experience with message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Azure Event Hub.
Experience with datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
Experience deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GoCD, etc.
Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).

Responsibilities

Designing and developing backend RESTful API web services using Microservices architecture.
Overseeing and mentoring other developers and handling code reviews.
Acting as team leader for development and support groups; providing programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
Working directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
Driving application development focused around delivering business valuable features.
Maintaining high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
Guiding the team to develop structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment.
Leading development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams.