Top Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develop and modernize native iOS applications for Grainger’s Sales Enablement Mobile Team using Swift and SwiftUI. Build scalable, accessible, high-performance interfaces and support APIs through BFF architectures and Python. Lead architecture decisions, CI/CD improvements, testing, observability, security, and performance optimization. Mentor engineers, promote clean code and trunk-based development, and collaborate across teams to deliver production-ready mobile tools.

Lead development of pricing web applications using React/Next.js front ends and Java/Kotlin back ends. Build reusable components, optimize performance and scalability, integrate RESTful APIs and third-party services, containerize with Docker/Kubernetes, enhance CI/CD, collaborate with data, product, and design teams, and troubleshoot production distributed systems.

Leads engineering for Grainger’s eProcurement domain and customer-facing API portal. Manages engineering teams and managers, establishes team charters, drives cross-functional execution, shapes external API standards, and advances modernization. Builds reliable, observable, high-performing systems through strong engineering practices, operations reviews, metrics, incident processes, and cloud-based delivery. Develops engineering leaders and partners with Product, Architecture, UX, Data, ML, and peer engineering teams.

Leads architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of scalable backend services and APIs for customer address data. Drives technical strategy, distributed systems standards, observability, reliability, incident response, and performance optimization. Partners across engineering, product, architecture, and business teams; establishes reusable platforms and engineering practices; mentors engineers; leads design and code reviews; and contributes hands-on to complex enterprise solutions.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable software services, APIs, and event-streaming applications using Java and Spring Boot. Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, stakeholders, and product managers on technical solutions. Apply CI/CD and engineering best practices, participate in pair programming and TDD, and mentor junior engineers while supporting full systems lifecycle delivery.

Leads the Search Engineering organization supporting Grainger’s digital experiences. Responsibilities include owning search strategy and roadmap, overseeing indexing, retrieval, ranking, and ML-powered search capabilities, managing engineering managers and senior managers, developing talent, improving agile delivery and operational rigor, and championing DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, observability, and scalable systems. The role partners closely with Product, Architecture, and Data Science and represents Search engineering with executive stakeholders.

Senior Full Stack Engineer for Grainger's Home Page and Display Customizations team. Build and maintain reusable React components, design and evolve backend services, improve observability and reliability, modernize legacy systems, and contribute to micro-frontend architecture. Mentor junior engineers, lead team projects, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality customer-facing features.

Design, build, and deploy scalable full-stack applications to replace legacy PIM workflows. Manage and review AI coding agent output, enforce guardrails, implement CI/CD and DevOps best practices, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with architects and product managers.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team owning enterprise address services. Partner with product, architects, SRE, and security to deliver scalable, secure, API-first microservices, ensure quality, reliability, CI/CD practices, incident response, and continuous improvement while managing delivery, metrics, and vendor/offshore teams.

Designs and implements enterprise infrastructure and platform solutions across cloud, compute, containers, storage, networking, observability, and shared services. Develops automation strategies, ensures reliability and security, supports technology onboarding, prototypes emerging technologies, documents designs, and guides engineering teams. The role collaborates with infrastructure, security, cloud, business, and external partners to deliver scalable global solutions for mission-critical applications.