Technical Lead - Java

Career Area: Engineering

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 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. Lead design and delivery of Java-based services/applications and mentor developers to deliver high quality, scalable software in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own technical design and delivery; enforce coding standards, best practices, performance and availability.
• Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and coach on design patterns and low level design.
• Ensure enhancements align with existing architecture; deep dive complex legacy modules and propose optimal solutions.
• Collaborate with DevOps/cloud teams on build, release, and deployment readiness.
• Drive quality improvements, prevent production issues, and reduce technical debt.

Skills you will bring to the role

• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• 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.
• 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.
• Application Development Tools: Knowledge of application and system development; ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and toolkits for developing applications.
• Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge of the concepts, technologies and methodologies of artificial intelligence (AI); ability to develop, implement and/or apply artificial intelligence products and services in a specific industry domain to achieve business goals.
• Programming: Knowledge of relevant programming languages and tools; ability to test, write, design, debug, troubleshoot and maintain source codes and computer programs.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.

Required Skills / Experience

• 7+ years in Java development; 2+ years in a technical lead capacity.
• Strong Java/J2EE, OOP, MVC, Java design patterns.
• Spring + REST/JSON services; JPA/Hibernate/JDBC, SQL; JUnit.
• Git (branching/merging/tagging), Maven; strong debugging.
• Docker/containerization (and related tooling as applicable).
• Excellent communication; experience working with global teams.
• Identify and drive opportunities to embed AI and automation into engineering workflows to improve developer productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
• Partner with architects and product teams to design AI ready services and APIs, enabling future integration of AI/ML capabilities.

Additional Information

This position requires working onsite five days a week. Visa sponsorship, international assignments, or payroll transfers are not available for this role.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.