Senior Software Engineer, Java Full Stack

Caterpillar Inc.

Senior Software Engineer developing large scale applications using Java/J2EE technologies at Caterpillar. Collaborating across teams to enhance legacy systems and build reliable web applications.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeBangalore • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSAzureCloudDNSDockerGrafanaGraphQLGRPCHibernateJ2EEJavaJavaScriptJUnitKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMockitoPostgresPrometheusReactSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Experience in architecting large scale applications.
Responsible for the high- and low-level design.
Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies.
Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in a multi-threaded, distributed environment.
Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns.
Manage applications source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle – implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions.
Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems.
Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines.
Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure.
Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output.

Requirements

What you’ll need

More than 14 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux, Spring Modulith, OpenAPI, Liquibase/Flyway.
Experience in providing technical solutions and architecture.
Understand business requirements and provide high- and low-level designs.
Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business.
Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React/Angular frameworks.
Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them.
Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with a focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
Experience of developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models
Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing.
Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.
Experience with developing applications using Microservices with containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns.
Ability to quickly learn modern technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective.
A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos.
Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc.
Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions.
Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS using AWS Cloudformation, ECS Fargate, RDS, ALB, Lambda, S3, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Grafana/Prometheus/Cloudwatch, API Gateway.
Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development.
Experience with DevOps/security tools – Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc.
An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices.
Understanding of Rest, GraphQL, gRPC.
Familiarity with two or more Databases – DB2, PostgreSQL etc.
Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work Life Harmony
Earned and medical leave.
Relocation assistance
Holistic Development
Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe
Career developments opportunities with global prospects
Health and Wellness
Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
Employee mental wellness assistance program
Financial Wellness
Employee investment plan
Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Core JavaSpring BootSpring SecurityHibernate/Spring Data JPAJavaScriptReact/AngularKafkaDockerKubernetesUnit Testing (JUnit, Mockito)

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingCross-Team CollaborationCommunication