Hybrid: Peoria or Chicago (Peoria preferred), 2-day onsite requirement
Pay: $87–$93/hr (W2)
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k)

About The Role

Support enterprise application development and system design initiatives within Caterpillar’s digital technology organization
Focus on backend?heavy development with significant responsibility in solution design and architecture
Translate complex business problems into scalable, secure technical solutions
Work as part of an Agile Scrum team supporting cloud?based, mobile, web, and server?side systems
Spend approximately 40–50% of time on solution design, architecture discussions, and technical decision?making
Opportunity for long?term growth with potential contract extension and conversion to full?time employment

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy complex software systems across backend, cloud, and distributed environments
Lead solution design efforts by translating business requirements into scalable technical architectures
Participate in and contribute to architecture, design, and technical solution meetings
Develop high?complexity Java applications and backend services
Perform deployment activities using CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development team members
Conduct code reviews and support PR review processes
Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex application and system issues
Support integration testing, system testing, and customer acceptance testing
Collaborate closely with cross?functional teams, including product, DevOps, and architecture groups
Participate in all Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, grooming, reviews, and retrospectives

Required Skills & Qualifications

8+ years of professional software development experience (or 6+ years with a Master’s degree)
Strong backend development experience using Java
Proven experience with solution design and system architecture
Minimum 3 years of hands?on experience working with AWS, including CloudFormation, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, and IAM roles and policies
Experience building and deploying enterprise?scale applications
Strong understanding of application architecture patterns such as microservices, MVC, and event?driven systems
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
Experience deploying applications using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Azure DevOps
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
Excellent problem?solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Preferred Experience

Full?stack or frontend conceptual knowledge (hands?on UI development not required)
Experience with messaging and streaming systems such as SQS, SNS, or Kinesis
RESTful API design and development
Experience using API tools such as Swagger and Postman
Test?driven or behavior?driven development experience
Experience with testing tools such as Selenium or Cucumber
Leadership experience guiding development teams, feature delivery, and releases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field preferred
Master’s degree a plus
Equivalent professional experience will be considered

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