Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
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.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead and contribute to strategic modernization initiatives across Helios platforms, including transformation of legacy Java/J2EE applications to cloud-native(AWS) and scalable architectures
- Guide implementation approach for modernization initiatives, ensuring alignment between architecture intent and delivery execution
- Define and guide target architecture patterns and design principles for modernization efforts
- Drive experiments and proof-of-concepts (POCs) to evaluate recent technologies, frameworks,



and architectural patterns, enabling data-driven technology decisions
- Translate successful POCs into scalable, production-ready solutions and drive adoption across teams
- Influence engineering practices, standards, and architectural decisions across the broader Helios development community
- Lead architecture and design reviews, and code reviews, enforcing coding standards, best practices, and maintainable design patterns
- Mentor and coach engineers on low-level design, object-oriented design, and modern software engineering practices, elevating overall engineering capability
- Deep-dive into complex legacy modules, identifying constraints, and proposing optimal modernization or refactoring strategies
- Partner with DevOps and platform teams to ensure build, release, deployment readiness, and adoption of modern CI/CD and containerization practices
- Identify and drive opportunities to embed AI and autom

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Caterpillar
📍 Bengaluru