2025 Cat Digital Early Career Software Engineering Opportunities

Job 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.

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.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers.

With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

About the Role

As a Software Engineering professional, you will contribute to the design, development, and deployment of Caterpillar’s state-of-the-art digital platform.

Software Engineers manage the completion of their own work assignments and coordinate work with others.

This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications. Responsibilities are across functional lines with individuals assigned in new program development and / or maintenance of existing mobile, WEB, Cloud, server, personal computer, mainframe, and / or distributed computing systems.

What You Will Do

You’ll join a team with diverse project responsibilities and have valuable networking opportunities with all levels of Caterpillar employees.

In addition, all individuals hired into a early career role in Cat Digital will participate in L.E.A.D (learn, engage, adapt, develop), which is a 12 month onboarding program.

Through this program, you will gain networking opportunities, Caterpillar, Cat Digital and technical acumen. Software engineering roles are primarily in the verticals below :

Applications Engineering early career team members will be immersed in designing rapidly developing, consistent customer-centric, premium digital experiences.

This includes product development, mobile and service applications, eCommerce and digital marketing, etc.

Digital Platform early career team members will work to help simplify enterprise digital infrastructure; accelerate application development, ensuring greater data availability, quality and security.

What You Have Skills and Experiences

Examples of skills and technologies that previous hires have utilized include :

Designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining software at scale utilizing Java, Python, React, etc.

Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases

Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

Deploying software using CI / CD tools such as Jenkins, GoCD, Azure Devops etc.

Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure

Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)

Designing well-defined Restful APIs along with writing API proxies on platforms such as AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway

Testing with Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI / CD pipelines

Datastores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle

Degree Requirements

Currently attending or recently graduated from a 4-year accredited university / college with a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Human Interaction Design, or related degree

Top candidates will also have

Candidates must currently be participating or have participated in a Caterpillar student program

Minimum cumulative GPA requirement 3.0 / 4.0 (no rounding)

Expected graduation date between April 2024 through June 2025

Demonstrated experience using skills and technologies listed above

Previous demonstrated leadership experience

Previous technical work experience demonstrating technical aptitude

Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment