Senior Software Engineer

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.

Front End/UI Tech Lead

JOB PURPOSE: As a mid to senior level UI tech the candidate should is responsible to deliver the new content functionalities for the application that is currently in production.

JOB RELATED STATISTICS: Ability to estimate the given feature and meet the deadline and report the status on every day stand up and raise RISK or technical challenges to the other Tech Leads & Architect and mitigate with out impacting the delivery timeline with defined quality.

JOB DUTIES: Work closely with the other tech leads and system architects with in the teams & program and following the scrum & program ceremonies to have deliverable focus to understand the given requirements during the SRS grooming for the current & upcoming PI in the form of features & user stories in Azure DevOps and estimate them and do work break down for the same in terms of tasks with the details and assign the same as per the defined high level design. Making sure team is following writing unit test cases to validate the implementation and raise a PR request to integrate the implementation to the final deliverable. Responsibilities include a strong quality focus through unit testing of the developed code, and significant interaction with integration points including: L4 & L8/E2E. Make sure getting in to the production issues on priority and take initiatives to prevent them in future and bring quality and maintainability improvements with in the team.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Design Scalable UI applications in AWS/Azure environment
• Provides 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.
• Review the quality of designs and implementation of solutions implemented by the front end developers/leads
• Mentor junior team members
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• 8-12 years of software development experience and at least 2 of leading teams
• In depth hands-on experience with modern web frameworks such as Angular 2+ /React/Polymer
• Strong Understanding of HTML 5, CSS3, ES6 and Web components
• Strong understanding of interaction design principles and standard JavaScript Design patterns
• Deep understanding of MVC, MVM and MVVM application architectures
• Responsive Web Design and development
• Hands on experience of tools like Webpack, Gulp etc
• Good Understanding of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS
• Protractor/ Jasmine/ Karma
• Hands on 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
  
  

Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates

January 29, 2026 - February 5, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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