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Chicago, Illinois:
Peoria, Illinois time type:
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** Career Area:
** Technology, Digital and Data
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* 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.
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* Job Summary:

** Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership in design, development, testing and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform hosted on AWS. This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.
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* What You Will Do:

*** As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing backend RESTful API web services using Microservices architecture.
* Be responsible for overseeing and mentoring other developers and handle code reviews.
* Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
* Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
* Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features
* Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
* Guide the team to develop a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment
* Lead development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams
** What

You Will Have:

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* ** 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 the software product design.
* ** Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
** Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
* ** Effective Communications:
** Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
** Top candidates will also have:
*** Experience software development experience using Java 17 or higher and Spring Boot RESTful API development
* Experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
* Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Azure Event Hub.
* Data stores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Elastic Search, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
* Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GoCD, etc.
* Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).
** Additional Details:
*** This position requires the candidate to be based in Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL
* Relocation assistance…