Senior Java Developer - Agentic AI Squad Lead
Caterpillar1 day ago
Base Salary
$113k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Java applications, microservices, and APIs supporting the Caterpillar MineStar ecosystem.
- Lead end-to-end feature and technical initiative delivery using AI tooling and agentic workflows.
- Orchestrate AI agents across requirements decomposition, solution design, implementation, test generation, documentation, code review, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and production support.
- Validate AI-generated code and artifacts for correctness, security, maintainability, architectural fit, and production readiness.
- Contribute to solution architecture, technical decisions, design artifacts, and architecture documentation for complex problems.
- Establish quality gates and governance practices for responsible, traceable, and compliant AI-assisted development.
- Participate in code and design reviews and improve software quality, performance, security, resilience, and reliability.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Quality Engineering to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Monitor services, troubleshoot incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable production fixes.
- Create reusable agentic AI prompts, skills, workflow patterns, templates, and playbooks for MineStar teams.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing.
- Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, delivery evidence, lessons learned, and effective practices across engineering communities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant commercial software development experience.
- Substantial hands-on Java development experience using Spring and Spring Boot.
- Knowledge of distributed architecture, modern database design, security principles, secure coding, and resilient service design.
- Experience with software build, testing, dependency management, CI/CD, DevOps tooling, automated testing, code review, observability, and software quality practices.
- Ability to develop and use interactive custom agents and apply prompt engineering, agentic workflows, AI orchestration, and human-in-the-loop validation.
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated code and artifacts for correctness, security, maintainability, architecture fit, and production readiness.
- Experience providing technical leadership within a multidisciplinary software delivery team.
- Experience creating reusable agentic AI patterns, prompts, skills, templates, and playbooks is preferred.
- Experience supporting production operations, troubleshooting incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing sustainable fixes is preferred.
- Strong analytical, architectural, design, problem-solving, communication, coaching, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to plan eligibility.
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Health lifestyle programs, Employee Assistance Program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development, tuition reimbursement, incentive bonus, disability benefits, life insurance, parental leave, and adoption benefits.
- Full-time onsite work in the Irving, Texas office five days per week, with up to 10% travel required.
- Domestic relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available.
About Caterpillar
For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. With 2024 sales and revenues of $64.8 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and provides financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.