Work Location Type: Hybrid
Req Number 323886
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 maintenance, 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 $121,500.00 to $202,500.00.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:
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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.
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18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
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6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
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Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
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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.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Product Matching team. This position will work across backend micro services and react front end components. There is also a close collaboration with data engineers on our data pipelines and machine learning scientists on the models that power the experience. We work in small autonomous units to get work done across a variety of use cases the system supports.
As a full stack developer on the team your role will be to hop onto different parts of the system to solve problems, create solutions and optimize our software. You will also get the chance to go deep on a part of the system that interests you.
Team Size: Our teams consist of 3 - 8 developers and are supported by a product manager and engineering manager. Some teams also include business analysts.
Our tech stack:
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Java spring boot on the backend web component
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React on the front end
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Docker and Kubernetes for our runtime environment
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DataDog for observability
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Launch Darkly for feature toogles
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Github and Github actions for repo hosting and deployment pipelines
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Python, Spark and databricks for the data pipelines
JOB FUNCTIONS
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Design, build and maintain different aspects of the matching system.
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Participate in our on call rotation
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Work with our stakeholders to identify key metrics that will move the needle for the business
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Balance trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term maintainability. Make key technical decisions and set the technical direction
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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.
JOB DESCRIPTION DISCLAIMER
This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of the Employer.
Education Level
Education Details
Required/
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
in computer science or a related field
Experience
Experience Details
Required/
Preferred
5+ years
experience as a Software Engineer
required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Experience deploying software to the public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Proficient Proficiency in a backend language (Java, Kotlin, Go, ect)
Experience with front end technologies Typescript/JavaScript, React
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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.
