Senior Software Engineer (Autonomy Services)

Caterpillar; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Irving, TX to shape platform capabilities and deliver secure, scalable backend services. You will translate product needs into robust solutions and mentor others while staying hands-on.

You will design and deploy RESTful APIs with Java 17+, Spring Boot, and microservices; drive CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted development, collaborating across agile teams to deliver business value.

Qualifications

• Proficient in backend engineering and RESTful API design.
• Experience designing secure, scalable backend services in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and code reviews.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical discussions.
• Strong communication and collaboration across agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership on complex engineering problems and guide implementation decisions.
• Lead development of new functionality on cross-functional Agile teams and partner with product and architecture stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and feedback to improve quality.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
• Guide full-stack tradeoffs across API, service, and UI boundaries with focus on backend design.
• Contribute to technical documentation and scalable integration patterns across the platform.
• Help identify and resolve root causes for production and development issues to improve resilience.

Skills

Backend API design

Cloud platform experience

AI-assisted development

Team mentorship

Communication

Tools

Java 17+

Spring Boot

AWS

Azure

Job description

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.

Help Build the Future of Caterpillar

At Caterpillar, technology always has a purpose, which is to solve our customers' toughest challenges. Through Cat Technology, we are solving problems by building the intelligence layer that connects machines, data, and people to make jobsites safer, more productive, and more sustainable. By combining deep domain expertise in physical systems with software, connectivity, autonomy, and AI, we deliver solutions that work in the real world - on real jobsites, at global scale.

You'll build and deploy against one of the most unique data foundations - over 1.6 million connected assets generating real-world data daily. These data and platform capabilities are enabling the development of AI models, edge computing architectures, and software systems that scale across fleets, products, and industries. The result will be a new generation of machines that continuously learn, improve, and deliver performance at scale.

What You Will Do:

The Senior Software Engineer plays a key role in shaping platform capabilities and raising the engineering bar for the team. This role offers the opportunity to influence solution design, lead delivery of secure and scalable services on AWS, and mentor others while staying hands‑on in development. You will help translate product needs into robust technical solutions, improve engineering practices including AI‑assisted and agentic development workflows, and create measurable impact across a world‑class digital platform.

Design, build, test, and deploy backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.

Provide day-to-day technical leadership on complex engineering problems and guide implementation decisions across features and services.

Lead development of new functionality on cross-functional Agile teams and partner with product and architecture stakeholders to deliver business value.

Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and feedback that improves technical quality and team effectiveness.

Drive engineering excellence through strong practices in architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.

Apply AI‑assisted development tools and software engineering agents to accelerate design, implementation, testing, refactoring, and documentation; define clear task context and verification criteria; and help guide team usage through code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Guide full-stack implementation tradeoffs across API, service, and UI boundaries while remaining primarily focused on backend microservice design and delivery.

Contribute to application and interface design, technical documentation, and scalable integration patterns across the platform.

Help identify and resolve root causes for complex production and development issues while improving system resilience over time.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE

• Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design and technical approaches.
• Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop, and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through appropriate communication behaviors.

TOP CANDIDATES WILL HAVE

• Strong backend engineering capability with Java 17+ and Spring Boot to design and deliver RESTful APIs using microservices principles.
• Proven ability to build secure, scalable platform services in a cloud environment such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience deploying backend services in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of AI‑assisted and agentic software development workflows
• Ability to review, validate, test, and refine AI-generated code and pull requests for correctness, maintainability, performance, security, and alignment wit