Career Area:
Digital
Job Description:
The Senior Software Engineer contributes to design, development, and deployment of a world class lead generation application and platform. This application provides a consolidated view of all sales, and opportunity across our dealerships over an extended window of time, leveraging a variety of data sources. It is used for both strategic capacity planning at dealerships, as well as to drive actionable leads to dealerships monthly. This application is a critical enabler of Caterpillar's 2026 aftermarket parts and services growth goals. This is a Fully Remote Position.
JOB DUTIES: Responsibilities of the development of Caterpillar's lead generation application bringing senior level experience in java coding and big data frameworks.

• Highly competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems design and development 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 value, simplification and faster time to market
• Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
• Maintains high standards of software quality and security 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required
• 7 years or more of software development experience or at least 5 years of experience with master's degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of Java 8 or 11, Spring Boot and RESTful API development

Top Candidates will also have (NOT Required- But Willing to Train):

• AWS Lambda, AWS Cloudformation, AWS Elastic MapReduce, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops etc, Selenium and Cucumber, Shell Scripts
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS
• 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
• Proficient in Databases: MySQL, Snowflake, Hadoop Hive
• Oozie
• Python
• Designing and developing applications using Big Data frameworks - AWS EMR, Hadoop, Spark

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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