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Base Salary
$134k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of scalable backend services and APIs.
- Drive technical strategy and influence engineering direction across multiple teams.
- Define standards for API design, distributed systems, observability, security, and reliability.
- Establish reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering patterns.
- Lead incident reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, and technical debt reduction.
- Partner with product, architecture, platform, leadership, and business teams on complex problems.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, mentor engineers, and cultivate technical leadership.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and guide strategic adoption decisions.
- Contribute hands-on to complex technical solutions while balancing strategic responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a similar field.
- At least 5 years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable software systems in production.
- Expert-level proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, and backend API development.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, API-first architectures, event-driven systems, Kafka, asynchronous messaging, and distributed data processing.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redis, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, containers, and infrastructure automation.
- Proven experience leading architecture and design for complex enterprise systems and defining technical roadmaps across teams.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and with reliability engineering, SLOs, incident management, and production support.
- Experience improving the performance, scalability, availability, and resiliency of critical systems.
- Strong communication, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder influence, analytical, and mentoring abilities.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Chicago.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance beginning on the first day of employment.
- Six free licensed-therapist sessions annually.
- 18 paid time-off days annually for full-time employees and six company holidays per year.
- A 6% company contribution to a 401(k) plan with no employee contribution required.
- Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, and financial counseling resources.
- Maternity support, nursing benefits, and paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks for birth parents and four weeks for non-birth parents.
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About Grainger
W.W. Grainger is a public B2B distributor of maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies, safety gear, and facility products for businesses. It sells through a high-touch distribution network and its Endless Assortment e-commerce brands Zoro and MonotaRO, alongside services like inventory management and technical support. Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, Grainger serves more than 4.5 million customers and reported $17.2 billion in 2024 revenue.