Remote Frontend Architect & Tech Lead

Grainger; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 134,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Grainger seeks a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead to shape frontend strategy for Customer Order Entry. You will drive React and Next.js development, own architecture decisions, and deliver scalable, accessible interfaces that support complex order workflows.

You will partner with backend teams on API contracts, advance test automation (Jest, Cypress, Playwright), and raise engineering maturity through mentoring while balancing hands-on coding (roughly 60%) and leadership work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, testing, and deploying modern software applications.
• Strong expertise in React, Next.js, and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of customer order entry applications using React and Next.js.
• Own frontend architecture decisions, including SSR/SSG strategies, state management, performance optimization, and accessibility.
• Build scalable, resilient user experiences that support complex order workflows, validation rules, and real-time feedback.
• Partner closely with backend teams to define clean, well-documented API contracts for order submission and validation.
• Drive adoption of robust test automation practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for frontend and supporting services.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines with a focus on quality gates, test reliability, and deployment confidence.
• Ensure applications meet standards for performance, observability, security, and usability in production.
• Act as a technical mentor and leader, raising frontend engineering maturity and best practices across the team.
• 60% of time hands-on with code/40% mentorship

Skills

React

Next.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

Frontend architecture

UI/UX collaboration

CI/CD

Test automation

Agile teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jest

React Testing Library

Cypress

Playwright

REST APIs

Job description

Grainger seeks a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead to shape frontend strategy for Customer Order Entry. You will drive React and Next.js development, own architecture decisions, and deliver scalable, accessible interfaces that support complex order workflows.

You will partner with backend teams on API contracts, advance test automation (Jest, Cypress, Playwright), and raise engineering maturity through mentoring while balancing hands-on coding (roughly 60%) and leadership work.