Lead Angular Developer

Technology, Digital and Data

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Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

We are seeking a Lead Angular Developer to drive the design and development of next-generation, tablet-first applications that enable and visualize autonomous systems. This role serves as a technical leader across multiple teams, shaping scalable frontend architecture and delivering intuitive, high-performance user experiences.

You will work at the intersection of real-time systems, interactive visualization, and industrial autonomy, leveraging modern web and hybrid mobile technologies to build applications used in the field, including integration with advanced simulation platforms such as NVIDIA Omniverse for digital twin and 3D visualization experiences.

• Own and define frontend architecture across teams, including UI frameworks, state management, and application structure

• Design and deliver tablet-first applications using Angular and Ionic/Capacitor, with support for mobile and console-like environments

• Build interactive, real-time user interfaces that visualize and control autonomous systems using live data and AI-driven outputs

• Drive performance optimization for responsive, low-latency behavior across constrained devices (tablets and mobile)

• Establish engineering standards, reusable components, and best practices for long‑term scalability

• Lead technical design reviews, guide implementation, and mentor engineers across teams

• Collaborate with product, UX, backend, and AI/robotics teams to deliver integrated solutions

• Ensure quality through automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and application observability

• Drive AI‑augmented delivery using Spec‑Driven Development (SDD) and coding assistants such as Claude Code/Claude to accelerate design, implementation, review, and testing while maintaining engineering rigor

• Establish team practices, guardrails, and quality gates for AI‑assisted engineering — including prompt/spec patterns, review workflows, and verification standards for AI‑generated code

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision‑making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Software Integration Engineering: Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
• Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software product; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
• Software Product Testing: Knowledge of software product testing; ability to design, plan, and execute testing strategies and tactics to…