Lead Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Career Area

Technology, Digital and Data

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Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Engineer – UI Engineering to lead the design, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale front-end applications, shared UI frameworks, component libraries, and platform capabilities.

This role serves as a senior technical leader within the Experience Engineering organization and is responsible for driving engineering excellence, delivering scalable and high-performance user experiences, and enabling adoption of reusable UI platforms across multiple product teams.

The ideal candidate is a highly hands-on engineer with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, Web Components, application architecture, and modern front-end engineering practices. This role will partner closely with UI Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Owners, UX teams, and Platform Engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable front-end solutions.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Solution Design

• Lead the technical design and implementation of complex front-end solutions across multiple applications and teams.
• Translate architectural vision and standards into scalable, maintainable engineering solutions.
• Drive technical decision-making around frameworks, libraries, patterns, and platform capabilities.
• Review and validate technical designs, architecture proposals, and implementation approaches.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
• Champion engineering best practices, reusable patterns, and platform-first development approaches.
• Provide leadership during technical planning, estimation, and roadmap discussions.

Front-End Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Web Components, HTML5, and CSS.
• Build highly responsive, accessible, scalable, and performant user experiences.
• Develop reusable features and shared capabilities aligned with design system standards.
• Integrate applications with REST APIs, and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layers.
• Drive modernization initiatives, framework upgrades, and technical debt reduction efforts.
• Support mission-critical releases and production deployments.

UI Platform, Framework & Component Engineering

• Lead development and enhancement of reusable UI frameworks, component libraries, and shared engineering capabilities.
• Design and implement scalable component architectures and reusable patterns.
• Drive adoption of shared frameworks and libraries across product teams.
• Contribute to framework governance, versioning strategies, and release management processes.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, documentation, templates, and engineering accelerators.
• Partner with architects to evolve front-end platform capabilities and technical standards.

Design Systems & Experience Engineering

• Lead implementation of design-system-driven front-end development practices.
• Collaborate closely with UX and Design teams to transform designs into reusable production-ready components.
• Ensure consistency through design tokens, theming, component standards, and accessibility requirements.
• Support implementation of responsive and adaptive experiences across devices and platforms.
• Promote adoption of design systems across development teams.

Engineering Excellence & Quality

Establish and promote high standards for code quality, maintainability, scalability, and testability.

Drive implementation of automated quality practices including

Visual Regression Testing

Lead code reviews and architectural reviews across teams.

Ensure adherence to

• SonarQube quality standards
• Secure coding practices
• Open-source governance policies (FOSSA or equivalent)
• Identify and address technical debt while continuously improving engineering quality.

Performance, Security & Reliability

Optimize applications and framework components for

Accessibility Compliance

Rendering Efficiency

Application Scalability

Bundle Size Optimization

• Establish performance monitoring and remediation strategies.
• Partner with architects and platform teams to improve reliability and scalability.
• Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of critical production issues.
• Drive secure development practices and vulnerability remediation activities.

DevOps & Continuous Delivery

Drive adoption of CI/CD best practices across development teams.

Contribute to pipeline automation, release processes, and deployment strategies.

Implement and promote

Trunk-Based Development

Feature Flags

Progressive Delivery

Automated Quality Gates

Support release planning, production readiness, and deployment validation.

AI-Assisted Engineering & Innovation

Leverage AI-powered engineering tools to improve developer productivity and accelerate delivery.

Contribute to initiatives involving

AI-Assisted Development

Code Generation

Developer Productivity Platforms

Design-to-Code Automation

Knowledge-Driven Engineering Workflows

Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to engineering practices and developer experience.

Mentorship & Team Enablement

• Mentor and coach Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineers.
• Lead technical communities of practice, architecture discussions, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Guide teams in adopting engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform capabilities.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Influence technical direction without direct people-management responsibilities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with

UI Architects

Engineering Managers

Product Owners

UX and Design Teams

Platform Engineering Teams

• Cloud and DevOps Teams
• Support roadmap planning and technical strategy execution.
• Drive alignment across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and recommendations effectively.
• 12–16 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in front-end development.
• Proven experience leading large-scale front-end engineering initiatives and complex technical programs.

Strong hands-on expertise in

JavaScript

Web Components

• Experience building reusable frameworks, component libraries, and design-system-driven applications.
• Experience developing scalable enterprise-grade web applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and distributed application design.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience.

Technical Competencies

Front-End Technologies

React

Next.js

TypeScript

JavaScript (ES6+)

Web Components

HTML5

CSS3

Architecture & Platform Engineering

Component-Based Architecture

Design Systems

UI Frameworks and Component Libraries

State Management (Redux, Zustand, Context API)

Micro-Frontends

Module Federation

Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) Patterns

API Integration

Engineering Quality & Security

SonarQube

Unit Testing

Integration Testing

End-to-End Testing

Secure Coding Practices

FOSSA or Equivalent Governance Tools

DevOps & Automation

Git and GitHub

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

CI/CD Pipelines

Release Automation

Performance & Observability

Core Web Vitals

Lighthouse

DataDog

Grafana

Sentry

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Application Performance Monitoring

• Nice to Have
• Experience with SSR/SSG/ISR using Next.js.
• Experience with Lit, Stencil, or other Web Component frameworks.
• Experience implementing Micro-Frontend platforms.
• Experience contributing to enterprise design systems.
• Familiarity with Azure or AWS cloud platforms.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or equivalent.
• Experience with Storybook and component documentation platforms.
• Knowledge of mobile technologies such as React Native.
• Success in This Role Looks Like
• Successful delivery of complex, business-critical front-end initiatives.
• Strong technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
• Increased adoption of reusable UI frameworks and component libraries.
• Improved engineering quality, performance, and developer productivity.
• Effective mentoring and growth of engineering talent.
• Consistent alignment with architecture standards and engineering best practices.
• Tangible reduction in technical debt and improvement in platform scalability.
• Strong collaboration across architecture, engineering, product, and design organizations.
• This position requires working onsite five days a week.
• Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates

• October 15, 2026 - October 21, 2026
• Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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