Senior Front-End Developer, Cat Digital
Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
CAT Digital Platform team is looking for talented and motivated front-end developers to build reference applications/single page apps demonstrating the power of Platform services and giving a jump start to application developers. This team also builds applications used by Caterpillar technicians, Caterpillar Dealers and analysts all over the world. A great opportunity to learn about the IoT development!
JOB DUTIES: As a Senior Front-End Developer (Sr. Software Engineer) you will contribute to design, development, testing and deployment of software systems and/or applications.
- Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Identifies and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
- Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
- Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
- Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.
Basic qualifications:
- Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
- 8 years or more of software development experience or at least 3 year of experience with master's degree in computer science or related field.
- 5 years or more of experience in designing and developing front-end software applications in JavaScript.
- 3 years or more of developing customer facing applications using front-end frameworks, libraries (React / Angular / Polymer / Vue) and design patterns.
- 3 years or more of experience coding HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript and Web components
Top candidates will also have:
- Proven experience in some of the following,
- Understanding of basic UI/UX concepts and creation of wireframes.
- Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
- Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
- Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
- Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Go CD, Azure Devops etc.
- Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
- Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
- Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following,
- Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
- Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway
- Hands one experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
- Test driven development and behavior driven development.
- Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Datastores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle.
- Understanding of front-end state management libraries (redux)
- Must demonstrate solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.
- Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
- Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required
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Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
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