Sr. Software Engineer

Company: Caterpillar Inc.

Location: 501 SW Jefferson Ave, Peoria, IL 61630

Employment Type: Full time

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

Position Overview

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Caterpillar Inc. seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform. This role involves building a world-class platform to host a wide range of digital applications, with responsibilities crossing functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development and/or maintenance of existing mobile, web, cloud, server, personal computer, mainframe, and/or distributed computing systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
• Handle the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Work directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Work independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drive application development focused around delivering business valuable features.
• Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Guide the team to develop 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.
• Perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.
• Responsible for managing the completion of own work assignments and coordinating work with others.
• Work independently with minimal management input and review of end results.
• Quickly and correctly identify problems that may not be obvious.
• Solve problems by determining the best course of action, within departmental guidelines, from many existing solutions.
• Set priorities and establish a work plan to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions focused on developing new approaches to meet quality goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, and three years of experience in software development and designing and developing software applications in Java or Scala or a related occupation.
  • OR
• Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, and one year of experience in software development and designing and developing software applications in Java or Scala or a related occupation.
• Demonstrated experience with:
  • 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.
  • Deploying Software Using CI/

Application Instructions

Please refer to the original job posting for specific application instructions.