Senior Software Engineer
Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., responsible for bringing world class digital capabilities to our products and services. With almost one million connected assets worldwide, we're focused on using IoT and other data, technology, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.
This position is on the API Management team within Cat Digital. The team is responsible for the process, controls, and tools that support API development, security, publishing, consumption, and monitoring.
JOB DUTIES: As a Senior Software Engineer you will design, development, testing and deployment of software systems and/or applications. You will be responsible for overseeing and mentoring junior developers and handle code reviews.
- 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
- Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
- 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
- Guide the team to develop a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation, and user guides in a casual, flexible environment.
- 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.
- 7 years or more of software development experience or at least 7 years of experience with master's degree in computer science or related field.
- 5 years or more of experience coding in, Python, JavaScript, or Java.
- Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway or similar.
- Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger Editor & Postman, and linting tools like Spectral.
- Knowledge of security standards such as OAuth 2.0 and TLS.
Top candidates will also have:
- Proven experience in many of the following,
- Designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining software at scale.
- Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs using OpenAPI Specifications (OAS).
- Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Maven, Jenkins, GoCD, 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 many of the following,
- Message brokers such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache ActiveMQ, Kinesis.
- 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.
- Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.
- Hands on experience with metrics and visualization tools like Kibana, Grafana, or equivalent.
- 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.
Visa sponsorship available for eligible applicants.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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