Sr Software Engineer

at Caterpillar, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Caterpillar Inc. seeks Sr Software Engineer at its facility located at 540 W Madison St, Suite 310, Chicago IL 60661.

Job Duties: Contribute to the design and development of Caterpillar’s digital applications. Design and develop scalable UI applications in a cloud environment (AWS/Azure). Provide technical leadership in UI technology standards. (Angular, React, Node.js, Typescript, Ionic (Capacitor), HTML CSS3). Work in agile methodology and technology standards like GitHub and testing tools like Jest, Cypress, Appium, Test Cafe or similar technology stack. Provide guidance to project teams regarding UI guiding principles, system and application design, coding and design standards, best practices, and system performance and availability. Collaborate and pair with other development team members to design and develop new, scalable, secure, and reliable features and exciting experiences utilizing modern application development design patterns. Review the quality of designs and implementation of solutions implemented by the frontend developers/leads. Mentor junior team members. Collaborate with product owners and system integration engineers to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable. Write unit test cases including “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production. Write clean, maintainable code and perform unit tests and peer code reviews. Optimizes design for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed. Provide Tier III application support for application running in production. Telecommuting permitted for four days per week.

Requirements: This position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a closely related field plus five (5) years of progressive experience related to designing and developing software applications in front end technologies. Alternatively, the employer will accept a master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a closely related field plus three (3) years of progressive experience related to designing and developing software applications in front end technologies.

Additionally, the applicant must have employment experience with: (1) Mobile development experience in either native and /or progressive web applications using Angular, Ionic(Capacitor), NgRx and RxJS; (2) Building scalable applications using cloud tech stack (AWS/Azure); (3) Persistent data stores, testing methodologies such as TDD, and integration with complex services using APIs and ability to leverage CICD; (4) Agile methodology and technology standards such as GitHub and testing tools such as Jest, Cypress, Appium, Test Cafe or similar technology stack; (5) HTML, CSS3 used in designing and developing of web applications; (6) Front end technologies such as: JavaScript, Angular or Angular JS, Typescript, Ionic, RxJS, NgRx, Node.js, or React.

Applicants who are interested in this position should apply via www.caterpillar.com/careers, search [Sr Software Engineer / Reference #R0000264455 LI-DNI].