Web Designer & Performance Engineer (Rails/Postgres)

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

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.