Staff Engineer - Front End Platform

Work Location Type: Remote  

About Grainger:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment, Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 14 million products, and MonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products. For more information, visit www.grainger.com.  

Compensation:

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $111,500.00  to $185,800.00.

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:

Core Experience’s mission is to provide products that give Grainger a competitive advantage in user interface development.

We own the entire toolset for Grainger’s micro frontend ecosystem: design systems, project templates, reusable deployment pipelines, tooling for analytics, tooling for observability, and more! Because our team makes decisions that impact every digital product at Grainger, Core Experience engineers are important and highly visible members of the frontend development community at Grainger.

The Role:

Staff Engineer (SE4) is a dynamic and impactful role where you will influence decisions, lead projects, and be responsible for important business outcomes. You will have substantial autonomy to solve complicated problems, so sound judgement is important.

Success in this role is staying up to date on problems being faced by frontend engineers around the org, being successful as a project leader, providing code review, and delivering code.

A key challenge you will face in this role is navigating ambiguity to solve open-ended problems. As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to solve problems that are affecting multiple teams. You will also be responsible for setting project-level goals, rather than simply hitting them.

You will report to Senior Manager, Product Engineering and the primary location will be Chicago with the ability to work from home 3 days per week or work remotely if you live outside of the Chicago area.

You Will: 

• Develop an internal network so that you can stay up to date on problems being faced by frontend engineers within our org and build buy-in for your proposals
• Lead team-level projects, taking sometimes ambiguous guidance, communicating with stakeholders, setting goals, and completing tasks both technical and non-technical to achieve intended outcomes
• Actively engage in product strategy and prioritization discussions at the team level
• Deliver well-defined features, fixes, and technical upgrades at an efficient pace and with a high level of quality
• Actively engage in the code review process, both giving and receiving feedback from your teammates

You Have 

• 6+ years of experience building software as part of a team in a professional setting.
• Experience driving technical migrations that affect multiple teams.
• Experience leading projects at the team level.
• Understanding of micro frontend architecture principles.
• Experience with React.
• Experience with GitHub Actions workflows.
• Ability and experience with onboarding quickly to new technologies.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work 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, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.