Hybrid Staff Software Engineer

at Grainger

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $121,500 - $202,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Postgres, React, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer developing solutions for Grainger's Product Matching team. Collaborating on backend and frontend development while working with data engineers and machine learning scientists.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain different aspects of the matching system.
• Participate in our on call rotation
• Work with our stakeholders to identify key metrics that will move the needle for the business
• Balance trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term maintainability.
• Make key technical decisions and set the technical direction
• Work to improve the overall maturity of our systems
• Own the technical design and implementation of mission critical features.
• Help evolve our APIs using your understanding of REST and the HTTP Protocol
• Create an environment where quality (testing + observability) is a shared responsibility, engineers strive to write maintainable applications, and learning is a collaborative activity
• Promote effective coding practices like SOLID Principles, refactoring patterns, and clean code
• Mentor other engineers on the team
• Understand and evolve our data needs. This means our operational Postgres DB and publishing our data for consumption by other teams and ML models.
• Have opinions on how to properly use AI tooling. Help the team level up in this regard.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer required
• Experience deploying software to the public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficient Proficiency in a backend language (Java, Kotlin, Go, etc)
• Experience with front end technologies Typescript/JavaScript, React
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field

Benefits

• 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.