Web Designer

Caterpillar; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 73,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits designed for life outside Cat

Job summary

Caterpillar seeks a mid-level Web Designer to advance products using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. A salary of $73,000–$113,000 accompanies real responsibility, with mentorship and benefits. The role emphasizes performance, code quality, and scalable systems in a dynamic environment in Virginia Beach, VA.

Applicants should bring a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and demonstrate adaptability to a fast-paced technology landscape while collaborating across teams for impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in a fast-moving technology environment.
• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale.
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis.
• Wire up Webpack feature flags to enable testing in Virginia Beach traffic.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.
• Translate stakeholder requests into shippable services.

Skills

Ability to manage priorities

Team collaboration

Problem solving under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Webpack

Job description

Step into a mid-level engineering role where Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL drive everything we build at Caterpillar. We pair a $73,000 - $113,000 salary with real responsibility, so the Web Designer you become here grows faster than the title suggests.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis
• Wire up Webpack feature flags so Caterpillar can test on Virginia Beach traffic risk-free
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for quietly-excellent production environments
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Caterpillar stakeholders into shippable Negotiation services

What You'll Bring

• Comfort with a Caterpillar pace that rarely sits still
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated Flexibility expertise in a fast-moving technology environment

Caterpillar is a Virginia Beach, VA-based company on a playfully-serious path to redefine the technology industry. Transparency is a habit, so roadmaps, tradeoffs, and even mistakes get shared openly.

For this Web Designer role we offer $73,000 - $113,000, a mentor who has walked the path, and benefits designed for life outside Caterpillar.

We bumped this posting hours ago because the role is still very much open.

We open the Web Designer role today and close it once we meet the right person, so hurry.