Senior Software Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.•Chicago, IL

1d•$112,710 - $183,140•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership in the design, development, testing, and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform hosted on AWS. This position is crucial for building a world-class platform that will host a wide range of digital applications. You will be responsible for designing and developing backend RESTful API web services using a Microservices architecture. Additionally, you will oversee and mentor other developers, handle code reviews, and act as a team leader for development and support groups. This role involves providing programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to team members, as well as working directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution. You will drive application development focused on delivering valuable business features and maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits. You will also guide the team in developing structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation, and user guides in a casual, flexible environment, and lead the development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams.

Requirements

Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Effective Communications: 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience software development experience using Java 17 or higher and SpringBoot RESTful API development.
Experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Azure Event Hub.
Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
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 valuable business features.
Maintaining high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
Guiding the team to develop a 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.