Lead Angular Engineer – AI-Driven Frontend Lead

Caterpillar; Westminster, Chicago, Peoria, Irving (CO, IL, IL, TX); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Angular Developer to drive scalable frontend and backend integration across Angular, GraphQL, and Node.js. This AI-first role emphasizes practical use of Claude and Copilot to accelerate delivery.

You will mentor engineers, align product, UX, and AI partners, and establish standards for resilient, observable software across time zones. Travel up to 5–10% may be required.

Join Caterpillar to help build AI-enabled digital solutions for customers and dealers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Frontend architecture and leadership experience.
• Collaboration with product, UX, backend, and AI partners.
• Experience with real-time data systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Mentoring engineers and leading cross-time-zone teams.
• Proven use of AI coding assistants in production delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own and define frontend architecture across teams.
• Design GraphQL schemas, resolvers, and Node.js services.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable components.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with product, UX and backend teams for integrated solutions.
• Ensure quality through automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Drive AI-augmented delivery using Spec-Driven Development.
• Set guardrails and QA standards for AI-assisted engineering.

Skills

Angular

RxJS

NgRx

JavaScript/TypeScript

GraphQL

AI-assisted development

Tools

Apollo

WebSockets

Express/NestJS

CI/CD

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Angular Developer to drive scalable frontend and backend integration across Angular, GraphQL, and Node.js. This AI-first role emphasizes practical use of Claude and Copilot to accelerate delivery.

You will mentor engineers, align product, UX, and AI partners, and establish standards for resilient, observable software across time zones. Travel up to 5–10% may be required.

Join Caterpillar to help build AI-enabled digital solutions for customers and dealers worldwide.