Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Autonomy Services in Irving, Texas. This role provides technical leadership for critical platform investments that enable a broad portfolio of digital applications, shaping architecture, influencing engineering direction, and accelerating the delivery of secure, scalable services on AWS while mentoring other engineers. You will lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and a microservices architecture. You will act as a technical leader for development and support groups by providing architectural guidance, engineering direction, and hands-on problem solving. You will own complex application and platform challenges from discovery through delivery, balancing speed, quality, security, and long-term maintainability. You will set and reinforce high standards for software quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, operational readiness, and best practices. You will mentor and develop engineers across the team, helping raise technical capability and consistency in execution. You will lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development practices by defining effective repository guidance, approval workflows, validation standards, and secure development guardrails that improve delivery speed while preserving quality, architecture integrity, and human accountability. You will influence full-stack architecture patterns across UI, API, and service layers while maintaining primary ownership of scalable backend microservice and platf

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Autonomy Services in Irving, Texas. This role provides technical leadership for critical platform investments that enable a broad portfolio of digital applications, shaping architecture, influencing engineering direction, and accelerating the delivery of secure, scalable services on AWS while mentoring other engineers. You will lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend RESTful API services using Java, Spring Boot, and a microservices architecture. You will act as a technical leader for development and support groups by providing architectural guidance, engineering direction, and hands-on problem solving. You will own complex application and platform challenges from discovery through delivery, balancing speed, quality, security, and long-term maintainability. You will set and reinforce high standards for software quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing strategy, operational readiness, and best practices. You will mentor and develop engineers across the team, helping raise technical capability and consistency in execution. You will lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic software development practices by defining effective repository guidance, approval workflows, validation standards, and secure development guardrails that improve delivery speed while preserving quality, architecture integrity, and human accountability. You will influence full-stack architecture patterns across UI, API, and service layers while maintaining primary ownership of scalable backend microservice and platf