About this role
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.
Join Solar Turbines!
As an Experienced Software Engineer, you will contribute in software development community in order to deliver information technology components based on client or customer requirements.
What will be your task at this position?
Responsibilities of the successful candidates are to design, test and develop software solutions such as features, capabilities of platform and whole applications that meet client or customer requirements.
- Competent to analyze the requirements.
- Competent to design, test and develop the software components that meet defined requirements.
- Able to use best coding practices (libraries, frameworks, APIs) and standard design patterns in software development.
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Able to mentor junior level team members.
- Create and analyze visual diagrams and methods - logical technical diagrams, flowcharts and models - that document the complexity of delivered services.
- Competent to troubleshoot and maintain existing code base in order to fix bugs or address client or consumer concerns.
- Leverage Agile practices during the whole software development lifecycle.
- Coordinate with product owner to plan, analyze, implement and maintain enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed.
- Collaborate with a team of software and test engineers, designers, and data scientists to optimize and iterate on software solutions.
- Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Solar Digital management from time to time.
What do we expect from a suitable candidate?
Basic qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience in Software engineering.
- Proven record of strong technical understanding and technical leadership.
- 3 years or more of relevant industry experience.
- 3 years or more of software engineering experience – Python backend or full-stack developer (Django preferred, knowledge of Flask and FastAPI)
- some experience with frontend (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS )
- Understanding of microservice architecture
- Understanding of REST standards
- Strong experience and understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Experience in using cloud services to build enterprise applications
- Strong understanding of Agile methodology, preferable Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework.
Top candidates will also have:
- Ability to operate as individual contributor in a small team of developers during implementation of development activities.
- Interest in working collaboratively with engineering leadership, product owners, software developers and other stakeholders.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot production application issues.
- Ability to work independently without any degree of supervision.
- Ability to lead and mentor junior team members.
- Responsibility to conduct peer reviews.
- Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops etc.
- Experience on Cloud services (preferrable AWS) and serverless applications
- Experience in fast and real-time processing
- Experience in distributed/asynchronous applications (message queues, cache, etc.)
- Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
- Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
- Pro-active thinking - being flexible and creative
- Self-motivated mentality - individual with passion in latest technology trends.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with other team members.
Posting Dates:
January 15, 2026 - February 14, 2026Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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Other facts
About Solar Turbines
Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines, with more than 16,000 units and over 3 billion operating hours in over 100 countries. Products from Solar Turbines play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world. Solar Turbines’ products include gas turbine engines (rated from 1,590 to 52,500 horsepower), gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor sets, mechanical-drive packages and generator sets (ranging from 1 to 39 megawatts). Solar’s customers put the company’s products to work in many areas including production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar’s foundation is people and Solar’s culture is one where individual contributions are valued, diversity in the workplace is encouraged, and safety is emphasized in all aspects of the business. Solar Turbines, founded in 1927, is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team.
What you'll do
- The successful candidate will design, test, and develop software solutions that meet client requirements. They will also mentor junior team members and troubleshoot existing code to fix bugs.
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