Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership in design, development and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform. This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.

• 14+ years of experience in designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale

• Hands-on in JAVA and J2EE technologies & Cloud based environment with experience in leading the engineers and providing technical guidance

• Expert knowledge in JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, SQL, Spring, JUnit and JSON, REST/JSON web services.

• Strong knowledge in Java Design Patterns.

• At least three plus years of deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as Azure.

• 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, GoCD, Azure Devops, Confluence, etc.

• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).

• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs

• Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway or Azure API Manager

• 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 Cucumber and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience using mocking frameworks and unit test frameworks

• Expertise writing and debugging multi-threaded applications

• Strong analytical skills

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms and object-oriented design.

• Experience in working with the Leads to create product plans, resource and scope estimates and feature technical specifications

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as OAuth, JSON Web Token

• Advance knowledge in Security and best practices in cyber security

• A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimize web performance.

  • Additionally, you would participate in competency development with the objective of ensuring the best-fit and high-quality technical solutions.