Lead Software Engineer
Caterpillar3 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and define frontend architecture, UI frameworks, state management, and application structure across teams.
- Design and build GraphQL schemas, resolvers, and Node.js services for real-time, data-rich applications.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable components, and scalable frontend best practices.
- Lead technical design reviews, guide implementations, and mentor engineers.
- Partner with product, UX, backend, and AI teams to align cross-functional work and resolve trade-offs.
- Ensure quality through automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and application observability.
- Use AI tools throughout design, implementation, code review, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
- Develop team guardrails, quality gates, prompt and specification patterns, and review workflows for AI-assisted engineering.
- Coach engineers on effective use of AI coding tools and share productivity practices.
- Travel up to 5–10% as required.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering with strong frontend architecture expertise.
- Experience leading engineering teams, including across multiple time zones.
- Strong experience with Angular, RxJS, state management such as NgRx, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frontend design patterns.
- Hands-on experience building backend services with Node.js, Express, NestJS, or similar technologies.
- Strong experience designing and consuming GraphQL APIs, including schema design, subscriptions, caching, and performance tuning.
- Experience integrating real-time data systems, WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
- Proven heavy production use of AI coding assistants such as Claude, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot, including agentic workflows and tool or MCP integrations.
- Experience with Spec-Driven Development or similar specification-first methods.
- Strong collaboration skills and experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to plan eligibility.
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and volunteer time.
- 401(k) savings plans, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Health lifestyle programs, Employee Assistance Program, voluntary benefits, and employee discounts.
- Career development opportunities and tuition reimbursement.
- Incentive bonus, disability benefits, and life insurance.
- Parental leave and adoption benefits.
- Work location is limited to Chicago or Peoria, IL; Dallas, TX; or Denver, CO, with no domestic relocation assistance.
- Any offer is conditioned upon successful completion of a drug screen.
Tech Stack
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. designs, manufactures, and services construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives for infrastructure, resource, and energy customers. The public company, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, sells primarily through an independent worldwide dealer network and provides equipment financing. It operates through Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation segments, with shares traded on the NYSE and Euronext Paris.