Lead Software Engineer – Java

Caterpillar Inc.

Lead Software Engineer at Caterpillar driving development of cloud-based technology projects. Technical leadership in design, development, and deployment of digital platform applications.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeChennai • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudHibernateJ2EEJavaJUnitSpringSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership in design, development and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform.
Help drive the ongoing development of our cloud-based technology projects.
Collaborate with Agile teams for software implementation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
14 years or more of software development with 8+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java at scale.
Strong experience in JAVA and J2EE technologies with Cloud based environment.
Expert knowledge in JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, SQL, Spring, JUnit and JSON, REST/JSON web services.
Strong knowledge in Java Design Patterns.
Development and implementation of features in any Cloud platform products and technologies.
Experience developing applications with Agile team methodologies preferred.
Strong Object-Oriented design skills and understanding of MVC.
Sufficient experience with Git to organize a large software project with multiple developers to include branching, tagging and merging.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaJ2EESQLSpringJUnitJSONREST/JSON Web ServicesJava Design PatternsMVCGit

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree