Technical Lead - Java

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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.

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 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.

Posting Dates:

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

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