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Career Area:Technology, Digital and DataJob 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.Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.Job Summary: Senior Software Engineer - Prime Product eCommerceWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and modernization of customer-facing digital platforms that power Shop, Prime Online, Cat.com, and other enterprise commerce experiences.
This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, modern web development, cloud architecture, AI-assisted engineering, and specification-driven development practices.What You Will Do:Design, develop, and support scalable web applications, APIs, and integrations.Lead technical solution design and architecture decisions across complex initiatives.Develop modern digital experiences using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native technologies.Implement resilient integrations with enterprise platforms including Dealer ERP, DLS, Helios, ONE, and other business systems.Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps practices.Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.What You Will Have:Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.Systems Software Infrastructure: Knowledge of computer architecture and system software interaction; ability to design and build a fundamental architecture of operating systems, database management systems, communications protocols, compilers and other development tools.Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.Considerations For Top Candidates:5+ years of software engineering experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale applications.Strong experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, and modern web development frameworks.Experience deploying and supporting applications on Vercel and/or cloud platforms such as AWS.Strong understanding of microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, Micro Frontends (MFE), and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns.Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, pe