Software Engineer

Overview Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data Senior Software Engineer role focused on shaping platform capabilities, leading secure and scalable services on AWS, and mentoring team members while remaining hands-on in development. What You Will Do 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; 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 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; guide team usage through code reviews and best practices. Guide full-stack implementation tradeoffs across API, service, and UI boundaries while focusing on backend microservice design and delivery. Contribute to application and interface design, technical documentation, and scalable integration patterns across the platform. 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 tools; ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to transmit and 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 cloud environments ( 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 with engineering standards. Knowledge of responsible AI usage and secure coding practices in AI-assisted development. Nice to Have Experience building production AI agents using Python. Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph. Experience integrating LLMs with external tools, APIs, databases, and retrieval systems. Experience designing evals, guardrails, and monitoring for agent reliability. Multi-agent workflow design and memory/context management. Prompt optimization, latency reduction, and cost control. MLOps or model deployment experience. Additional Details Location: Irving, TX (Dallas). Domestic relocation assistance is available. Visa sponsorship is available. Compensation and Benefits Summary Pay Range: $112,710.00 - $183,140.00 Benefits: Medical, dental, vision; 401(k); Health Savings Account; FSAs; lifestyle programs; Employee Assistance Program; voluntary benefits; career development; incentive bonus; disability benefits; life insurance; parental leave; adoption benefits; tuition reimbursement. Eligibility varies by plan and location. Important Notes Posting Dates: July 6, 2026 - July 20, 2026. Equal Opportunity Employer information: Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr