Senior Lead API Engineer

Caterpillar

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Work type: On-site
Location: Peoria, ILChicago, IL
Salary: $128,470–$208,770 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Closes: Jun 19, 2026 (soon)
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $185k

This role $169k

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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $148,375–$222,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

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About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the world''s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Industry: Heavy Equipment & Manufacturing

Caterpillar currently has 38 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $128,470–$208,770 across 38 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead API Engineer

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As a Senior Lead API Engineer at Caterpillar, you will provide technical and product leadership for the company’s Parts eCommerce APIs, acting as the single-threaded owner responsible for defining, governing, and evolving these critical digital interfaces. Your day-to-day involves collaborating with Product Owners, Architects, and Business stakeholders to ensure APIs are reliable, scalable, and well-documented, while also maintaining hands-on engineering skills by contributing code and guiding teams in designing RESTful and event-driven APIs. You will work extensively with tools like Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, and OpenAPI specifications, ensuring APIs adhere to best practices for performance, security, and observability. This role demands expertise in AI-enabled APIs, cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, and experience deploying software using CI/CD pipelines within an Agile framework.

Skills

API Gateway Apigee AWS Azure CI/CD DynamoDB Elasticsearch Kafka RabbitMQ Swagger Postman Cucumber MVC Microservices Event-driven RESTful Python Java Go JavaScript OpenAPI Jenkins Git GitHub MySQL Oracle Redis MongoDB Cassandra Aurora PostgreSQL Kubernetes Docker Terraform

What you'll do

Define and enforce API quality standards for performance, security, documentation, and operational readiness.
Act as the technical product owner for Parts eCommerce APIs, managing contracts, versioning, and lifecycle.
Partner with stakeholders to translate business capabilities into well-defined, consumer-centric APIs.
Represent assigned API domains in architecture reviews and governance forums, making authoritative decisions.
Guide teams in designing RESTful, event-driven, and domain-aligned APIs for consistency across the platform.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience in designing and developing software applications, including APIs.
Proven ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code for API implementations.
Strong understanding of RESTful API design patterns and event-driven architectures.
Experience with API management platforms like Apigee, AWS API Gateway, or Azure API Management.
Demonstrated technical leadership in API governance, quality standards, and operational readiness.

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