Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

at W.W. Grainger, Inc. in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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.

Position Details:
KeepStock is Grainger's Inventory Management Solution for helping its customers streamline their inventory management processes and improve productivity. KeepStock is in the middle of a digital transformation where it is shifting from an on-premise monolithic architecture to a cloud-based microservices architecture. KeepStock has teams building full-stack web experiences, microservices, event-streaming based reporting capabilities, and IoT platforms using modern development techniques and technologies.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the KeepStock engineering team. You will focus on full-stack development and event-streaming technologies to help develop the web-based tools that empower Grainger team members to manage KeepStock customers.
We're looking for someone excited about domain-driven design, clean code, and solving diverse problems, who is ready to join a collaborative team environment that values collective code ownership and other XP practices.

You will report to the Software Engineering ManagerPay:
This position is salaried and will pay between $120,400.00 - $200,700.00 with a target bonus of 15%.
The range provided is a guideline and not a guarantee of compensation. Other factors that are involved in offer decisions include, and are not limited to: a candidate's experience, qualifications, geographical area, and internal equity of the team.You Will:
Write code in React, Next.js, Node.js, and Nest.js, with a focus on clean code, refactoring, and test-driven development.
Implement event-streaming applications and architectures using Apache Kafka.
Deploy working software to production early and often using DevOps practices such as build automation, containerized deployments, infrastructure as code, pipeline as code, feature flag techniques, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and trunk-based development.
Use and promote XP engineering practices such as pair programming, TDD, team ownership of quality, and fast iterative feedback.
Coach junior engineers.
Collaborate with tech leads, architecture, engineering management, and product management to validate that requirements are clear and technical approaches are focused on development of high-quality software.
Work in a collaborative team environment with a focus on continuous improvement and learning, applying teamwork skills such as empathy, engagement, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
Treat deployments/releases as non-events because you are a disciple of the theory of continuous delivery with a history of its application in practice.
Lead the building of RESTful APIs, taking into account the challenges with backward compatibility in a deploy-often environment using best practices such as TDD, trunk-based development, CI/CD, and frequent incremental iterative releases/deployments.You Have:
Bachelor's degree in software engineering, related degree, or relevant work experience.
6+ years of experience as a software engineer.
Proficient in a containerization platform (Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift), build automation, continuous integration/deployment, and automated monitoring.
Proficient in a Cloud stack (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and event-streaming technologies (Kafka).
Proficient in RESTful API-driven design.
Proficiency in JavaScript with TypeScript.
Experience with modern front-end technologies and building applications using React, Next.js, and Node.js.
Proficient in TDD practices and front-end testing frameworks and practices (Jest, Cypress, Playwright)
Ability to produce detailed, comprehensive software documentation, such as testing plans, requirement specs, design docs and incorporate technical requirements for user stories.
Proficient in Git and a continuous integration tool.Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is... For full info follow application link.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.