Senior Software Engineer

Caterpillar•Chicago, IL

10d

About The Position

Join Caterpillar’s Cat Digital Platform to help build technology powering Caterpillar’s digital future. The platform supports the secure flow of data, insights, and services connecting customers, dealers, machines, and applications worldwide. In this role, you will contribute to designing, developing, and delivering scalable, secure, customer-focused cloud solutions and work with architects, product teams, and engineers to deliver high-quality software and continuously improve the platform. The position involves designing and developing enterprise-scale REST APIs and microservices with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS; building API-first solutions; and implementing secure service integrations. You will translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation plans, contribute to design decisions and code reviews, and collaborate across product, UI, architecture, and partner teams. You will promote reliability, scalability, observability, security, and maintainability, support automated and performance testing, resolve complex production issues, and contribute across deployment, monitoring, support, and documentation. You will also mentor junior and mid-level engineers. The candidate must be based in Chicago, Illinois. Relocation assistance is unavailable. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible applicants. The summary pay range is $112,710 to $183,140. Employment offers are conditioned on successful completion of a drug screen.

Requirements

Knowledge of software development tools and activities, with the ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Knowledge of software product design and the ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
Ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Ability to communicate effectively and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs.
Candidate must be based in Chicago, Illinois.

Nice To Haves

Extensive experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices using Java 21 or later and Spring Boot, including API management platforms such as Apigee.
Experience designing, deploying, and operating applications in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
End-to-end software lifecycle experience, including comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end automated testing using frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito.
Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures with message streaming solutions such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, or Azure Event Hub.
Strong knowledge of relational, NoSQL, caching, search, and vector database technologies, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Aurora, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GoCD, or similar tools.
Familiarity with AI-assisted coding companions such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.
Demonstrated success working within an Agile development framework, ideally Scrum.

Responsibilities

Design and develop enterprise-scale REST APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS cloud services.
Build API-first solutions and define service contracts, payload schemas, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
Develop secure and scalable service integrations using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and enterprise authorization models.
Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs, user stories, and implementation plans.
Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
Collaborate with product owners, UI development teams, architects, and partner teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Promote reliability, scalability, observability, security, and maintainability in engineering practices.
Drive quality engineering through automated testing, performance testing, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.
Contribute throughout the software lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, support, and documentation.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.