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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