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Chicago, IL
Lead Software Engineer jobs in Chicago, IL
3 open roles from 2 employers. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
What these openings look like
2 employers are hiring here: Caterpillar and Vizient. Every one publishes a pay range, and they run $117,600 to $208,770 a year. Every posting is full time. The most recent went up on Oct 2, 2026.
Every listing links to the employer's own application. Nothing is posted here on their behalf, and nothing is reposted from anywhere else.
Open roles
What it pays here
Only some employers publish a range. These are the ones that did, as written in their own postings:
- $128,470–$208,770 a year
- $117,600–$206,000 a year
What they ask lead software engineer candidates here
Drawn from the 3 open postings on this page. The ones that come up across several employers are near the top.
The CPC platform feeds product and parts data to Cat.com, Parts.cat.com and dealer systems. How would you design it so many consumers can rely on it?
What they are checking: Whether they think about stable contracts, caching and versioning for a shared content platform.
How do you handle data quality problems in product content, like a wrong specification reaching a dealer site?
What they are checking: Whether they build validation and traceability so bad data is caught before customers see it.
Tell me about a time you led technical direction for a team. How did you get buy-in?
What they are checking: Whether they lead through clear reasoning and listening, not just seniority.
How would you serve images and videos efficiently to sites with heavy traffic worldwide?
What they are checking: Whether they understand CDNs, asset management and performance at scale.
Two consuming teams want conflicting changes to the content API. How do you decide?
What they are checking: Whether they balance needs across consumers and protect the platform's stability.
How do you approach search and filtering over a large parts catalog?
What they are checking: Whether they know practical indexing and search design for structured product data.
Tell me about a migration you led that had to happen without downtime.
What they are checking: Whether they can plan careful cutovers when other systems depend on theirs.
How do you decide when to pay down technical debt versus ship new features?
What they are checking: Whether they make tradeoffs explicit and tie them to platform health and business needs.
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