Lead Software Engineer

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Compensation:

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $120,400.00  to $200,700.00. 

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

For additional information and details regarding Grainger’s benefits, please click on the link below:

https://experience100.ehr.com/grainger/Home/Tools-Resources/Key-Resources/New-Hire

The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation.  The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.   

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above. 

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.  

Position Details:
The Pricing team creates the technology that supports Grainger’s pricing strategy. Providing the right product at the right price is core to Grainger’s growth objectives, both in terms of driving direct growth the pricing leverage, and in terms of supporting other growth drivers like marketing. The Pricing team is responsible for building and maintaining the applications and data that support deriving the right price for each product.

Our vision: Pricing in the MRO (maintenance, repair, & operations) industry is extraordinarily complex, because of the many factors that must be considered. Setting a market relevant price requires clear understanding of product, customer, and competitor dynamics. Evolving the technology to support deriving the market relevant price requires constant iteration and collaboration with our business partners. We are a highly visible and important strategic team in our pricing strategy roadmap.

You will report to the Director, Product Engineering and will be based in the Merchandise Mart office. 

You Will:

• Develop, test, and deploy high-quality web applications using React, Next.js for the front end, and Java for the back end.
• Build reusable and scalable components and libraries for future use.
• Understand trends and emerging technologies and evaluate the performance and applicability of potential tools for our requirements.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with stakeholders including data teams, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with software and data related technical issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing systems to improve performance.
• Integrate with RESTful APIs and third-party services.
• Work on and enhance the CI/CD pipelines. 
• Pair program with developers daily to ensure better quality code, shared knowledge and increased resiliency of our applications.

 
You Have:

• 10 years of experience with Modern Software Engineering projects and practices: designing, building, and deploying scalable software applications. 
• 5 + years of experience in designing, building, and deploying cloud native solutions. 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization technologies. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with team members.
• Understanding of distributed system design and experience building production grade distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with React.js and Next.js frameworks for front-end development.
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, or similar frameworks for back-end development.
• Experience with messaging systems like Kafka. 
• Experience with database technologies such PostgreSQL and/or Snowflake.   
• Experience collaborating across teams to develop and implement software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity working with data teams. 
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices.

   

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.