Sr. Software Engineer

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

Job Description

Contribute to design, development, and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform. Work across functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development and/or maintenance of existing mobile, web, cloud, server, personal computer, mainframe, and distributed computing systems. Perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision. Work directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution. 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, maintaining 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 a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation, and user guides in a casual, flexible environment. Perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results. Specifically, create functions and assign droles in AWS Lambda to run python scripts and AWS Lambda using java to perform event driven processing. Work on DevOps / Agile operations process and tools area such as Code review, unit test automation, build and release automation environment, Incident and Change Management, including various tools. Create alarms based on CloudWatch metrics to report issues and errors in AWS resources like EC2, Lambda, Api gateway, kinesis, SQS, S3, SNS and create alarms based on the custom metrics. Develop TDD (Test Driven Development) compliant reusable component testing framework in Java and Python using Cucumber. Telecommuting: 2 days/week permitted.

Applicants who are interested in this position should apply via www.caterpillar.com/careers, search [Sr. Software Engineer/ Reference # - R0000266063].