Software Engineer

Overview

Software Engineer role contributing to the development and deployment of Caterpillar's digital platform, working independently on complex systems and mentoring junior developers.

What you'll do

• Design and implement end-to-end near real-time data movement solutions.
• Work independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drive application development focused around delivering business valuable features.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
• Perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components, requiring careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Manage the completion of your own work assignments and coordinate work with others.
• Quickly and correctly identify problems that may not be obvious, and determine the best course of action within departmental guidelines.
• Set priorities and establish a work plan to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions focused on developing new approaches to meeting quality goals.

What you'll need

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
• 5+ years of software development experience, or at least 3 years of experience with a master's degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing Data Pipelines in Python.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field is required.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints.
• Passion for technology and eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated leadership on medium to large-scale projects impacting strategic priorities.

Nice to have

• Proven experience designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale, with good understanding of concurrency.
• Working experience in Python as an Object Oriented programming language.
• In-depth understanding of how Data pipelines work in Big Data.
• Expertise and experience in building large Data Lakes and Data Warehouses (Snowflake preferred).
• Expertise in building end-to-end near real-time data pipelines for OLTP and OLAP.
• Strong architecture exposure for building robust Data Platforms.
• Expertise in SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Message brokers and AWS services such as Kafka/Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora, AWS RDS PostgreSQL.
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps (preferred), Jenkins, GoCD, AWS CloudFormation, etc.
• At least 2+ years of deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Good understanding of AI concepts and latest developments (Gen AI, MCP, ATA, etc.).
• Test driven development and behaviour driven development.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Works onsite five days a week.
• Relocation is available for this position.