Senior Full Stack Engineer – React & AI

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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.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

About the Role

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of new capabilities for Caterpillar Financial's AI workflow platform, leveraging full stack engineering and AI technologies to transform ideas into scalable, production-ready solutions. You'll be the hands-on technical lead for a 6-person global development team: proving ideas quickly with working proofs of concept, setting the engineering bar, and validating that what the team ships is sound. This role partners closely with technical and business stakeholders to solve complex challenges, establish engineering best practices, drive modern software delivery through CI/CD, and ensure AI-enabled capabilities are secure, reliable, and compliant. As a senior technical leader, you will influence the platform's architecture, mentor developers, and help shape the future of one of Caterpillar Financial's most visible technology transformation initiatives. This is a hands-on application engineering role, not a DevOps or cloud infrastructure role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead proof-of-concept and development work for new capabilities, and partner with the Technical Product & Delivery Lead and development team to take them into production
• Design and build full stack features across React/TypeScript front ends, Python or Node.js services and APIs, and AWS cloud services
• Drive UI/UX and front-end architecture decisions so Artemis stays intuitive, consistent, and easy to use as it grows
• Build AI-enabled capabilities and agent-based workflows, including prompt and context design, evaluation, and guardrails that keep them safe and reliable
• Design and build integrations with enterprise systems such as Snowflake, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, and GitHub
• Establish reusable patterns, coding standards, and shared components for the platform
• Own the platform's test strategy, write and maintain automated tests, and build the test coverage and pipeline practices that move the team toward CI/CD
• Support production deployments, and lead root-cause analysis on complex production issues to drive lasting fixes
• Review designs and pull requests in GitHub, approve what moves to production, and mentor developers, reducing key-person dependency and building depth across the team
• Work with architecture and security partners to test emerging technologies, guide their implementation, and ensure solutions meet Cat Financial's standards and audit requirements
• Demo new capabilities to stakeholders and turn their feedback into clear technical next steps

What You Bring

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building and supporting production applications and 2+ years as a technical lead or go-to code reviewer for a development team
• Experience mentoring developers and raising code quality through code review and pairing
• Strong front-end experience with React and TypeScript, building production applications as part of a team
• Strong back-end experience building services and APIs in Python or Node.js
• Hands-on experience building applications on AWS cloud services (for example serverless compute, API management, storage, and managed AI services)
• Experience building integrations with enterprise systems (for example Snowflake, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Experience working with relational databases and REST APIs
• Proficiency with GitHub-based workflows, including branching, pull requests, and code review
• Hands-on experience building generative AI into applications that real users rely on, such as working with large language models, agent-based workflows, retrieval, and evaluation
• A track record of turning prototypes into production-ready, maintainable solutions
• Experience writing automated tests and supporting release and deployment processes
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work through ambiguous problems
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

Top candidates will have

• Experience delivering AI agents or LLM-based solutions in production
• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries (SOX, audit, IT risk)
• Experience setting architecture patterns, coding standards, or reusable components for a team or platform
• Experience building automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing component libraries or shared UI frameworks
• Understanding of secure application development practices
• Experience with workflow, low-code, or process automation platforms
• Experience with Agile delivery and Azure DevOps

What Success Looks Like

• Proofs of concept are proven quickly and delivered to production with the team
• Established patterns and standards are adopted across the platform
• AI capabilities deliver measurable improvements to delivery workflows
• Automated test coverage grows, moving the team closer to CI/CD
• Developers on the team grow, and platform knowledge is shared, reducing key-person dependency

Degree Requirement

A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent experience is required.

Compensation & Benefits: 

Summary Pay Range:  $118,860.00 - $190,176.00 

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance, and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.  

Benefits: 

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary of the benefits. 

•  Medical, dental, and vision benefits* 
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.) * 
• 401(k) savings plans* 
• Health Savings Account (HSA)* 
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)* 
• Health Lifestyle Programs* 
• Employee Assistance Program* 
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts* 
• Career Development* 
• Incentive bonus* 
• Disability benefits 
• Life Insurance 
• Parental leave 
• Adoption benefits 
• Tuition Reimbursement    

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees 

Posting Dates:

October 29, 2026 - November 5, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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