Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud APIs & Microservices

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off plan

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure cloud solutions powering Caterpillar’s digital future.

You will build backend APIs and microservices using Java 21+, Spring Boot, and AWS, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and customer-focused platforms. You will mentor engineers, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and own delivery across the lifecycle while maintaining high quality and observability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs and microservices in a cloud environment.
• Strong knowledge of Java 21+ and Spring Boot.
• Experience with API gateways (Apigee) and secure service integrations (OAuth 2.0, JWT).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Aurora, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with automated unit/integration/performance tests and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GoCD, GitHub Actions).
• Comfort working in Agile/Scrum teams with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend RESTful APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with product owners, UI teams, architects, and partner engineering to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• Participate in solution design, API contracts, payload schema, and OpenAPI/Swagger development.
• Implement secure service integrations using OAuth 2.0, JWT, and enterprise auth services.
• Lead feature implementations and drive delivery of business capabilities.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and best practices.
• Handle application, integration, performance, and production support issues end-to-end.
• Maintain high software quality via automated testing, performance testing, code reviews, and best practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, deployment, observability, and operational excellence.
• Own software delivery across the development lifecycle (documentation, deployment, monitoring, production support).

Skills

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Java 21+

Spring Boot

API Gateway (Apigee)

OAuth 2.0 / JWT

Kafka / SQS / SNS / Kinesis / RabbitMQ

Databases (Aurora/DynamoDB/PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle/MongoDB/Redis/Elasticsearch)

CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GoCD/GitHub Actions)

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure cloud solutions powering Caterpillar’s digital future.

You will build backend APIs and microservices using Java 21+, Spring Boot, and AWS, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and customer-focused platforms. You will mentor engineers, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and own delivery across the lifecycle while maintaining high quality and observability.