Lead Software Engineer-Java

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data Job Description: 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.

Looking for Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in design, development and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform. We are looking for innovative, highly competent java architect to join our team to help drive the ongoing development of our cloud-based technology projects. This position requires extensive experience applying Java, cloud and mobile (or) web application technologies.

Required Skills: Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.

14 years or more of software development with 8+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java at scale.

Strong experience in JAVA and J2EE technologies with Cloud based environment.

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

Strong knowledge in Java Design Patterns .

Development and implementation of features in any Cloud platform products and technologies.

Experience developing applications with Agile team methodologies preferred.

Strong Object-Oriented design skills and understanding of MVC.

Sufficient experience with Git to organize a large software project with multiple developers to include branching, tagging and merging.

Desired Skills: Experience in AWS / Azure cloud (PaaS) with Java is a plus.

Strong business application design skills.

Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.

Strong debugging skills.

Highly proficient in standard Java development tools (Eclipse, Maven, etc.)

A strong interest in building security into applications from the initial design.

Experience at creating technical project Documentation and task time estimates.

In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language

Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices

Proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS

Ability to use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write applications

Ability to identify key features of AWS services

Understanding of the AWS shared responsibility model

Understanding of application lifecycle management

Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS

Ability to use or interact with AWS services

Ability to apply a basic understanding of cloud-native applications to write code

Ability to write code using AWS security best practices (e.g., not using secret and access keys in the code, instead using IAM roles)

Ability to author, maintain, and debug code modules on AWS

Proficiency writing code for serverless applications

Understanding of the use of containers in the development process

Posting Dates: June 30, 2026 - July 7, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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