Staff Tech Lead, Backend
About The Position
As a Lead Software Engineer (Software Engineer IV) you will develop applications that align with a strategic vision. In addition to coaching engineers, you will partner with key stakeholders including Product Managers and Architecture. You will embrace curiosity to ensure a deep understanding of the business requirements that drive the analysis and physical design of technical solutions. You will work as a Staff engineer on a Customer Order team. The team is responsible for largely three things: The cart customers interact with on, eventually, all channels at Grainger. Currently this is limited to our main Grainger.com experience. Provide internal capabilities to calculate the cost of an Order to a customer. This means resolving interesting Freight, Pricing and Tax considerations for our customers. Lastly, we manage the payment and invoicing capabilities to ensure people can securely access their payment information. To give you a picture of our scale, we can see 100,000s orders per day and each one of those has at least one cart, one payment method, and one order calculation. We are a critical component of the customer’s experience and require a team that build solutions that scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in computer science or similar; or equivalent experience required
- 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer; with experience in modern software engineering; designing; devloping, testing and deploying scalable software applications within a variety of technologies and environments. required
- Expert knowledge of programming skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of distributed system design and integration patterns
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and Dev Ops Practices
- Experience with analyzing, interpreting and communicating complex problems and practices
- Experience building HTTP APIs
Responsibilities
- Lead engineer on a team responsible for the application and delivery of high-quality, maintainable software for highly complex applications
- Influence team adoption of sensible defaults to enable continuous delivery activities
- Contribute to continuous learning on your team culture by leading knowledge sharing sessions with latest technological features and engineering practices
- Maintain software in production with demonstrated ability to triage and resolve issues
- Mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and participate in pair programming
- Partners directly with IT Management team to ensure successful design and delivery of technology based solutions
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment
- 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing
- 23 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date)
- 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
- Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools
- Maternity support programs
- Nursing benefits
- Up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents
- Up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
