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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer (Autonomy Services) - **Company:** Caterpillar - **Location:** Irving, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $112,710.0 - $183,140.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Design of User Interfaces, Software Tools, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Spring-boot, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Restful APIs, Code Restructuring, Microservices - **Published:** July 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/8DE9AC137C8E4FD4A5CC1878E57CA4B2/job/ ## About the Role * Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements. * Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design and technical approaches. * Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop, and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages. * Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. * Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through appropriate communication behaviors., * Strong backend engineering capability with Java 17+ and Spring Boot to design and deliver RESTful APIs using microservices principles. * Proven ability to build secure, scalable platform services in a cloud environment such as AWS or Azure. * Experience deploying backend services in cloud-native environments. * Knowledge of AI-assisted and agentic software development workflows * Ability to review, validate, test, and refine AI-generated code and pull requests for correctness, maintainability, performance, security, and alignment with established engineering standards. * Knowledge of responsible AI usage and secure coding practices in AI-assisted development * Nice to Have:·Experience building production AI agents using Python·Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph·Experience integration LLMs with external tools, APIs, databases, and retrieval systems·Experience designing evals, guardrails, and monitoring for agent reliability·Multi-agent workflow design and memory/context management·Prompt optimization, latency reduction, and cost control·MLOps or model deployment experience ## Description The Senior Software Engineer plays a key role in shaping platform capabilities and raising the engineering bar for the team. This role offers the opportunity to influence solution design, lead delivery of secure and scalable services on AWS, and mentor others while staying hands-on in development. You will help translate product needs into robust technical solutions, improve engineering practices including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, and create measurable impact across a world-class digital platform. * Design, build, test, and deploy backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. * Provide day-to-day technical leadership on complex engineering problems and guide implementation decisions across features and services. * Lead development of new functionality on cross-functional Agile teams and partner with product and architecture stakeholders to deliver business value. * Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, and feedback that improves technical quality and team effectiveness. * Drive engineering excellence through strong practices in architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness. * Apply AI-assisted development tools and software engineering agents to accelerate design, implementation, testing, refactoring, and documentation; define clear task context and verification criteria; and help guide team usage through code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices. * Guide full-stack implementation tradeoffs across API, service, and UI boundaries while remaining primarily focused on backend microservice design and delivery. * Contribute to application and interface design, technical documentation, and scalable integration patterns across the platform. * Help identify and resolve root causes for complex production and development issues while improving system resilience over time. ## Related Videos - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Building the Future of Java: AI Agents, MCP, and Next-Gen App Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100113-building-the-future-of-java-ai-agents-mcp-and-next-gen-app-development) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100004-the-ai-native-engineering-org-what-s-real-what-s-hype-what-s-next) ## Related Articles - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Transforming Software Development: The Role of AI and Developer Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/527-transforming-software-development-the-role-of-ai-and-developer-tools) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift)