Principal Software Engineer-Full Stack

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.
Role Definition

• You will build and ship software, drive architectural decisions and implementation across distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Actively improve the level of craftsmanship at Cat Digital by developing best practices and defining best strategies.
• Lead cross team/cross-functional discussions and drive alignment on product/technology strategy.
• Define the bar for quality and efficiency of software systems while balancing business impact, operational impact and cost benefits of design and architectural choices.
• Act as one of the primary domain experts to influence technology choices; Hands-on develop proof of concepts and evaluate new technologies
• Lead by example to build a culture of craftsmanship and innovation.
• Provides technical guidance to other team members.
• Maintain a current understanding of industry and technology trends.
• Communicate and enforces technical standards.
• Advise product and engineering leadership on achieving strategic business objectives.
• Help align architecture between business units
• Support and advice on hiring for senior engineering roles
• Strengthen the engineering community and coach senior engineers in their further development
• Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, show and tell demo sessions

Responsibilities

• Designing, modifying, developing, writing and implementing software programming applications for target system using agile methods.
• Acquiring product requirements; resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.
• Writing source codes for new applications, and/or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications.
• Utilizing automated testing tools to perform the testing and maintenance.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Applies critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
Effective Communications: Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.

• Conducts walkthroughs and monitors effectiveness and quality of the development activities.
• Elaborates on multiple-development toolkits for traditional and web-based software.
• Has participated in development of multiple or large software products.
• Contrasts advantages and drawbacks of different development languages and tools.
• Estimates and monitors development costs based on functional and technical requirements.
• Provides consulting on both selection and utilization of developers' workbench tools.

Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.

• Describes similarities and differences of life cycle for new product development vs. new release.
• Identifies common issues, problems, and considerations for each phase of the life cycle.
• Works with a formal life cycle methodology
• Explains phases, activities, dependencies, deliverables, and key decision points.
• Interprets product development plans and functional documentation.

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.
• Has experience with designing data exchange interfaces to and from software product.
• Describes tools and techniques for extraction, transformation and loading of electronic data.
• Cites examples of common linkage requirements for software products and vendors.
• Works with integrating software into the partner framework and infrastructure.
• Participates in the development of technology interfaces and bridges.
Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

• Demonstrates experience with the architecture and design of major or multiple products.
• Describes major software architecture alternatives and considerations.
• Explains design considerations for different layers in an application.
• Displays experience in estimating the cost of a specific design of a proposed product.
• Facilitates design reviews and walkthroughs.
• Analyzes benefits and drawbacks of specific software designs and architecture.

Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
• Maintains and utilizes data related to install base configurations and environments.
• Solicits feedback; reports and monitors bugs and implementation issues.
• Participates in defining and conducting technical acceptance tests.
• Participates in creating technical requirements for software development and deployment.
• Explains basic environment and product configuration options.
Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.

• Participates in test readiness reviews, functional, volume, and load testing.
• Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.
• Tests software components for compliance with functional requirements and design specifications.
• Explains procedures for documenting test activities and results (e.g. errors, non-conformance, etc.)
• Conducts functional and performance testing on aspects of assigned products.

Technical Knowledge:• In depth hands-on experience with modern web frameworks such as React/Angular/Nextjs• Strong Understanding of HTML 5, CSS3, ES6, TypeScript and Web components;• Strong understanding of interaction design principles and standard JavaScript Design patterns• Understanding of various rendering techniques like SSR, CSR etc• Responsive Web Design and development; Understanding of CSS preprocessors like SASS• Good understating of e2e tools like Cypress, Playwright etc.• Hands on cloud-based development in AWS• In-depth experience of backend technologies like springboot / NodeJSE
• Experience of architecting/designing/implementing microservices based applications
• Experience of breaking monoliths to microservices based applications• Experience of database technologies (SQL/NoSQL)
• Experience of integration technologies
• Experience of web analytics tools, DevSevOps tools
• Strong understanding of performance and performance optimization• Strong understanding of OWASP Top ten, secure coding practices and principles and creating a culture of secure software development• Deep knowledge of eCommerce products (like HCL /websphere commerce, SAP Commerce Cloud / Hybris or similar products) is advantageous
Posting Dates:
May 14, 2025 - May 27, 2025
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