Remote Staff Engineer - Frontend Leader (React/Next.js)

Jobs in JS; Rosiclare (IL); Remote; USD 134,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

Grainger is seeking a Software Engineer (IV) on the Customer Order Entry team to lead frontend development using React and Next.js. You’ll own architecture decisions, drive performance, and collaborate with product and UX to deliver robust order-entry workflows.

You will mentor engineers, advance testing strategies, and partner with backend teams on API contracts, while maintaining high standards for reliability and security in a fast-paced retail environment.

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.
• Experience building complex, form-driven or workflow-based user interfaces, ideally in order entry, checkout, or transactional systems.
• Proven experience with test automation frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of backend integration patterns including REST APIs, event-driven systems, and asynchronous workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and containerized environments.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions, influence design direction, and lead in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Experience working in Agile teams with strong collaboration between engineering, product, and design Equal Opportunity Employer

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

Test automation

REST APIs

CI/CD

Agile teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jest

React Testing Library

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

Grainger is seeking a Software Engineer (IV) on the Customer Order Entry team to lead frontend development using React and Next.js. You’ll own architecture decisions, drive performance, and collaborate with product and UX to deliver robust order-entry workflows.

You will mentor engineers, advance testing strategies, and partner with backend teams on API contracts, while maintaining high standards for reliability and security in a fast-paced retail environment.