Sr. Software Engineer
W.W. Grainger
Sr. Software Engineer
Date: Nov 7, 2025
Location: CHICAGO, IL, US, 60654-4203 Remote, IL, US, N/A
Company: Grainger Businesses
Work Location Type: Hybrid
Req Number 325395
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 $110,500.00 to $184,100.00.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:
- 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:
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.
Position Details
We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Customer Information Management (CIM) team. Our mission is to enhance the quality and integrity of customer information to drive profitable growth and reduce service errors across the enterprise.
As a Full Stack Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable web applications that power the customer data ecosystem. You will collaborate closely with architects, product managers, analysts, data engineers, and stakeholders to deliver solutions that integrate, process, and manage data from diverse internal and external sources. This role reports directly to the Senior Manager, CIM, Product Engineering.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and deploy robust web applications using React and Next.js on the front end, and Java with Spring Boot on the back end.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business requirements into elegant, maintainable technical solutions.
- Build reusable, scalable components and frameworks that enable rapid development and high reliability.
- Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Work closely with data and platform teams to integrate APIs, data pipelines, and third-party services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code adhering to engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring application resilience and uptime.
- Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth, automated deployments.
- Participate in pair programming, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and code quality.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying modern software applications at scale.
- 3+ years developing cloud-native solutions (AWS preferred, Azure, or GCP).
- Proven experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in React.js, Next.js, Java, and Spring Boot (or comparable frameworks).
- Solid understanding of distributed system design and hands-on experience with microservices architectures.
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, and relational/analytical databases such as PostgreSQL and Snowflake.
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems (Git).
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and collaborative development practices.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across teams.
- A passion for mentoring, continuous learning, and driving engineering excellence.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating or collaborating with data engineering and data science teams.
- Background in mentoring or guiding junior engineers in software and data engineering best practices.
- Proven success in influencing technical direction and driving software engineering standards among teams.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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.