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Job Summary:
Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. They are seeking a Full Stack Developer to join the Financial Systems Data team, focusing on developing secure, high-performance applications for financial services while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain secure, scalable web applications using React.js/Next.js and Python.
• Design and implement backend services, APIs, and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Deploy and manage applications on Microsoft Azure, leveraging services like Azure Functions and App Services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for efficient and safe code delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to define and deliver new features.
• Ensure code quality through version control, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance across the full stack.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and contribute to business value.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or Equivalent education with at least 8 Years of experience
• Develop and maintain secure, scalable web applications using React.js/Next.js and Python.
• Design and implement backend services, APIs, and microservices with a focus on performance and reliability.
• Deploy and manage applications on Microsoft Azure, leveraging services like Azure Functions and App Services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for efficient and safe code delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to define and deliver new features.
• Ensure code quality through version control, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance across the full stack.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and contribute to business value.
• Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
• Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
• Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
Preferred:
• Proven full‑stack engineering capability, delivering modern, scalable applications across a mature tech stack (including Next.js and internal platforms such as SvelteKit or Nuxt), with strong backend development experience using modern frameworks to build performant, reliable, and data‑driven services.
• Deep Microsoft Azure expertise, with hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and supporting solutions across Azure Functions, App Services, storage, databases, and DevOps tooling, complemented by strong observability and monitoring capabilities using Azure Monitor and Application Insights to ensure application health, performance, and reliability.
• A mature DevOps and cloud engineering mindset, with practical experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
• Experience with containerized and cloud-native architectures, including the use of Docker and Kubernetes to support scalable, resilient applications.
• A strong focus on security and quality, applying best practices in cloud and web security, clean coding standards, version control, and Git-based workflows.
• Strong communicator and collaborative partner, leveraging AI‑enabled development practices to work effectively across engineering, product, and stakeholder teams, while continuously improving ways of working and embracing modern tools, frameworks, and engineering practices to deliver better outcomes.
Company:
For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world. Founded in 1925, the company is headquartered in Peoria Heights, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.