Senior Front-End Engineer

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.

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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer with hands-on coding experience to join our eCommerce development team. This is a technical, development focused role — we need someone who is actively writing React/Next.js code every day, not just coordinating between teams.

The ideal candidate has deep, hands-on expertise in React, Next.js, and front-end architecture, and has built CMS driven templates and reusable components that non-technical marketing teams can use. You will play a key role in our ongoing migration from JSP based templates to a modern headless architecture and will be expected to contribute from day one with production quality code, debugging expertise, and component design leadership.

What You Will Do

• Rebuild legacy JSP-based marketing and sales components and pages into React/Next.js templates powered by CMS data

• Develop reusable, schema-driven components that can be authored by non-technical CMS users

• Integrate front-end templates with headless CMS APIs (REST/GraphQL) for dynamic rendering and scalability

• Partner with marketing/content teams to ensure templates are flexible but controlled for brand consistency

• Architect and maintain the front-end framework with a focus on performance, SEO, and accessibility

• Write production quality code with unit tests, end-to-end tests, and performance benchmarks

• Actively participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and technical discussions within a Scrum team

• Mentor junior developers and share best practices in React, Next.js, and CMS integration

What You Will Have:

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.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Software Development: Knowledge of software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
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 the software product design.
Software Product Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of technical aspects of a software products; 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 ensure software product quality and adherence to stated requirements.
 

Considerations for Top Candidates
 

Required Skills

• Hands-on front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/ES6+)

• Active React development, including hooks, state management, and performance optimization

• Proven experience with Next.js (SSR, SSG, routing, API routes, image optimization)

• Direct experience developing for a headless