Senior Frontend Lead: AI-Driven Angular Architect

Caterpillar; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 128,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits*

401(k) savings plans*

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Angular Developer to shape scalable full-stack architectures across Angular frontends, Node.js services and GraphQL APIs. You will drive AI-first delivery and collaborate with product, UX, backend, and AI partners to build high-performance user experiences.

This role emphasizes defining frontend standards, mentoring engineers, and aligning cross-team efforts for integrated solutions with a focus on AI-assisted engineering and Spec-Driven Development.

Qualifications

• Experience leading frontend architecture and teams.
• Strong Angular, RxJS, and state management expertise.
• Proficient in TypeScript and modern frontend patterns.
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL APIs.
• Backend services with Node.js (Express/NestJS).

Responsibilities

• Own and define frontend architecture across teams, including UI frameworks, state management, and application structure.
• Design and build GraphQL schemas, resolvers, and Node.js services that power real-time, data-rich frontend experiences.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable components, and best practices for long-term scalability across the frontend layers.
• Lead technical design reviews, guide implementation, and mentor team engineers.
• Partner closely with product, UX, backend teams. Build alignment, resolve trade-offs, and keep cross-team work moving toward integrated solutions.
• Ensure quality through automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and application observability.
• Use AI tools as core parts of daily delivery across design, implementation, code review, refactoring, testing, and documentation.
• Drive AI-augmented delivery using Spec-Driven Development (SDD) to speed up work while keeping engineering rigor.
• Set team practices, guardrails, and quality gates for AI-assisted engineering, including prompt and spec patterns, review workflows, and verification standards for AI-generated code.
• Coach engineers on using AI tools effectively and share patterns, prompts, and workflows that raise productivity across teams

Skills

Angular

RxJS

NgRx

TypeScript

GraphQL

Node.js

AWS

AI tools

Cross-functional leadership

Spec-Driven Development

Tools

Express

NestJS

Apollo

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Lead Angular Developer to shape scalable full-stack architectures across Angular frontends, Node.js services and GraphQL APIs. You will drive AI-first delivery and collaborate with product, UX, backend, and AI partners to build high-performance user experiences.

This role emphasizes defining frontend standards, mentoring engineers, and aligning cross-team efforts for integrated solutions with a focus on AI-assisted engineering and Spec-Driven Development.