Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
As a Lead Software Engineer you will contribute to architecture, design, development, testing and deployment of enterprise web software systems and/or services.
JOB DUTIES: Responsibilities of the incumbents are across functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development of web services, enterprise API, Microservices and/or distributed computing systems in a public Cloud environment.

• Competent to produce application solution architecture and high-level design deliverables working with product and other platform/product development teams.
• Competent to perform all programming 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.
• 12+ years of overall backend or full-stack experience
• 8+ years of Java 8 or 11, Spring Boot and RESTful API development (preferably Microservices)
• 2+ years for solid Cloud production experience (preferably AWS) OR a higher-level Cloud training certification (e.g., AWS Solution Architect Associate) OR Cloud native computing with PCF or Kubernetes
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and JPA/Hibernate
• Experience leading technical POCs, new system architecture and building scalable, performant and fault-tolerant distributed systems or web services.
• Good Knowledge (if not Experience) and interest in UI development (Angular or React)
• Excellent communication and presentational skills

Top candidates will also have:

• Proven experience in many of the following,
  • Architecting, Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
  • Application architectural patterns, such as 12-factor app development, parallel processing with multi-threading, event-driven, etc.
  • Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GoCD, Azure Devops etc.
  • Remediating/Addressing security issues from SAST and DAST analysis techniques
  • Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following,
  • Message brokers such as Kafka, AWS SQS, Apache ActiveMQ, Kinesis.
  • 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.
  • Datastores such as Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle.
  • Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.
• 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
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities
• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required

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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