Software Engineer III

Location: LAKE FOREST, IL, US, 60045-5203

Work Location Type: Hybrid

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan, and the United Kingdom, we serve 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 $102,300.00 to $170,500.00.

Rewards and 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.

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

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.

The product matching team is hiring for a full stack engineer to help build out a new web-based workstation. The workstation will be a key tool used to support mission-critical teams across Grainger’s business. We are expecting around a 40/60 split between front-end/back-end work for this position.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Product Engineering.

You Will:

• Dive into different layers of our technology stack to build out the workstation using technologies like:
• React
• Next.js
• Express
• TypeScript
• Jest
• Docker
• Spring Boot
• Redis
• Data Bricks

• Collaboratively build the front and back-end components of the systems.
• Support the systems you build as part of our on-call rotation.
• Be open to pair programming and continuously experimenting with ways of working to improve.
• Develop functionality with speed and high quality.
• Help lead the team in delivering high-quality, maintainable software with a focus on using product engineering sensible defaults to enable continuous delivery.
• Contribute to continuous learning on your team culture by leading technical knowledge-sharing sessions with the latest technological features and engineering practices.
• Build products that delight our users and have empathy for the problems they are trying to solve.
• Maintain software in production with demonstrated ability to triage and quickly resolve issues.

You Have:

• An interest in data and AI algorithms.
• 5 years of experience building mission-critical systems as a full stack engineer.
• A deep understanding of REST and HTTP and how to build robust APIs.
• Understanding of distributed system design and experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Understanding of producer/consumer design patterns and messaging frameworks like Kafka.
• Built software that runs in the cloud, such as AWS or Google Cloud, and understand cloud-native design patterns.
• Some experience with CI/CD pipelines and have opinions on what makes a good pipeline.
• Experience with production support and observability.
• A belief that quality is everyone’s responsibility and hold opinions on how to validate and harden software systems.
• Automated testing.
• InversifyJS experience is a plus.
• SOLR or search engine experience is a plus.
• Have an ownership mindset. Our team members are expected to work through or around obstacles and drive a task to completion.

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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.