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
The search intelligence team has an opening for a staff full stack engineer to help build out a new react based workstation. The workstation is a web based tool used to support our search analysts who keep our search functionality accurate and useful. Workstation will be the one stop shop for search analysts and will also feedback information into our machine learning and AI models that drive search.
You Will:
- Be the lead engineer spearheading the new workstation.
- Dive into different layers of our technology stack to build out workstation using technologies like:
- React
- Spring boot
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS cloud services (S3, EKS, ect)
- Help the team with best practices around react and our front end systems
- Have opinions on what tools to use and be able to justify your stance
- Collaboratively build the front and back end components of the systems
- Support the systems you build as part of 24* 7 on call support one week a month
- Be open to pair programming and continuously experimenting with ways of working to improve
- Develop functionality with speed at high quality
- Build products that delight our users and have empathy for the problems they are trying to solve
You Have :
- Have a thorough understanding of react and how to use it.
- Years of experience building mission critical systems as a full stack engineer.
- A deep understanding of REST and HTTP and how to build robust APIs.
- Understanding of distributed system design and experience building production grade distributed systems.
- Understanding of producer/consumer design patterns and messaging frameworks like Kafka
- Built software that runs in the cloud, such as AWS or Google cloud and understand cloud native design patterns
- Some experience with CI/CD pipelines and have opinions on what makes a good pipeline.
- Experience with production support and observability
- A belief that quality is everyone's responsibility and hold opinions on how to validate and harden software systems.
- Have an ownership mindset. Our team members are expected to work through or around obstacles and drive a task to completion.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
- Paid time off (PTO) days and 6 company holidays per year
- Benefits starting on day one, including medical, dental vision and life insurance
- 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period with no personal contribution required
- Employee discounts, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, free access to financial counseling, education and more.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible 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. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.
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Grainger is a leading broad line 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. 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 and one of Fortune's Best Workplaces for Women, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is an individual. Find your way with Grainger today.
Why Work With Us
We're proud of our people-focused culture that has been active for nearly 100 years. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone as an individual. At Grainger, we have a welcoming workplace where you can fell comfortable, confident and learn and grow at any career stage, all while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working.
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