Developer

Job Description

Description

JOB PURPOSE:

We are looking for Developers that are eager to use cutting edge application development tools and techniques to deliver a best-in-class user experience. This incumbent will work with an innovative, cross-platform, customer-centric team, working in a high pace environment.

JOB DUTIES:  As a Developer, you will contribute to design and development of Caterpillar’s digital applications.

• Design and develop scalable UI applications in a cloud environment (AWS/Azure)
• Provide technical leadership in UI technology standards.
• Provides guidance to project teams regarding UI guiding principles, system and application design, coding and design standards, best practices, and system performance and availability.
• Collaborate and pair with other development team members to design and develop new, scalable, secure, and reliable features and exciting experiences utilizing modern application development design patterns.
• Review the quality of designs and implementation of solutions implemented by the frontend developers/leads
• Mentor junior team members
• Collaborate with product owners and system integration engineers to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable
• Write unit test cases including “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform unit tests and peer code reviews
• Optimizes design for performance, maintainability, scalability, extensibility as needed.
• Provides Tier III application support for application running in production

Qualifications

Basic qualifications:

• Position requires a four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
• 5+ years of software development experience 

Top candidates will have:

• Proven experience in many of the following
• Modern web frameworks such as Angular 2+ /React/Polymer
• Understanding of HTML 5, CSS3, ES6+ and Web components
• Design principles and standard JavaScript Design patterns Protractor/ Jasmine/ Karma
• Application architecture patterns such as MVC, MVM and MVVM
• Test Driven UI Development (TDD) and Behavioural Driven Development(BDD) using testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Karma, Jasmine, Supertest, Selenium, Cucumber etc
• Responsive Web Design and development
• Hands on experience of tools like Webpack, Gulp etc
• CSS pre-processors like SASS or LESS
• Cloud-based development in Azure or AWS
• In depth hands-on experience in NodeJS
• Strong understanding of web performance and tools for performance optimization
• Strong understanding of state management libraries like Redux, NRGX
• Exposure to modern web application framework such as RUBY on Rails, Spring MVC
• Experience in Less, CORS, OAuth2, jQuery UI, RequireJS, Backbone.js, Toastr is a plus.
• Integrating with and /or defining, developing and maintaining web service API’s (RESTful, JSON-RPC) at scale
• Working with Node based development tools (including NPM, Yarn) to facilitate code formatting consistency, linting, testing, bundling etc.

• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints.
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated leadership on medium to large-scale projects impacting strategic priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field