Software Engineering Manager

W. W. Grainger; Lake Forest (IL); Remote; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company focused on transforming data and operational processes is seeking a leader for their software and data engineering teams. The role involves managing a team, prioritizing projects, and enhancing development processes to optimize service outcomes. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in leading complex engineering efforts, along with expertise in full-stack development and orchestration technologies.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance

18 PTO days annually

6% company contribution to a 401(k)

Employee discounts and tuition reimbursement

Maternity support programs

Qualifications

• Served in a leadership role of a full-stack software development team.
• 5+ years experience with orchestration tools.
• 3+ years with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead software and data engineers, ensuring collaborative environment.
• Provide technical guidance with code reviews.
• Plan and allocate resources within engineering teams.

Skills

Full-stack development

Team leadership

Technical coaching

Resource planning

Containerization

CI/CD

Job description

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Location: LAKE FOREST, IL, US, 60045-5203

Work Location Type: Remote

About Grainger:

W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products and solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Known for its commitment to service and award-winning culture, the Company had 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models. In the High-Touch Solutions segment, Grainger offers approximately 2 million maintenances, repair and operating (MRO) products and services, including technical support and inventory management. In the Endless Assortment segment,Zoro.com offers customers access to more than 14 million products, andMonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products. For more information, visitwww.grainger.com.

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is$111,500.00 to$185,800.00.

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

For additional information and details regarding Grainger’s benefits, please click on the link below:

The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.

A rapidly growing team at Grainger is focusing on transforming a variety of transactional and operational data, to support the development of new tools and services aimed at enhancing our sales teams ability to support and grow our relationships with our customers. #StartWithTheCustomer

You will be focused on managing a team of individuals contributing to the data and full-stack engineering efforts, collaborating with Product Management and ensuring their vision is realized in the delivered implementation. You will ensure data pipelines that power our services and experiences are optimized and yield accurate outcomes.

You will play an important part in defining the strategy of the team, from the front-end to the API to the ETL, collaborating alongside domain experts. You are a thoughtful observer who enjoys investigating business problems and building data solutions that address them.

You are a technical teacher that can guide teams to adopt the capabilities and products you build. You are an avid and patient communicator, able to convince collaborators of the value of your position, but also compromise at times to yield greater benefit to stakeholders.

Responsibilities Include:

Team leadership: Lead software and data engineers, ensuring a collaborative and engaging environment to foster engineering excellence.

Technical coaching: Provide technical guidance to team members with code reviews and pair programming. Foster an understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.

Feature Prioritization and Delivery: Collaborate with Product Management and technical leadership partners to prioritize features and guide delivery timelines.

Engineering Effectiveness: Nurture a culture of continuous improvement. Identify opportunities to enhance development processes, increase efficiency, and deliver high-quality software.

Resource planning and allocation: Plan and allocate resources within engineering teams, accounting for skillsets, project requirements, and timelines to increase productivity and ensure deliverables.

Establish clear communication channels and ensure understanding between engineering teams, architecture, data engineering, and the Product team.

Understand trends and emerging technologies and evaluate the performance and applicability of potential tools for our requirements.

Function as SME within this area when engaging with other Teams within Grainger to ensure visibility into our progress and deliverables and create opportunities for collaboration

Work with product and business to define roadmap, communication, and architecture.

Mentor junior team members.

You Have:

Served in a leadership role, technical or team lead, of a full-stack software development team

The ability to produce, maintain, and discuss complex architectural diagrams

Hire technical talent and ensured the continued learning and development needs of team members

Managed one or more geographically diverse teams

Collaborated with Product Management and UX to deliver a data-oriented product

5+ years orchestrating and implementing pipelines with workflow tools like Databricks Workflows, Apache Airflow, etc

3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

A high comfort-level with operating in the terminal and are experienced with shell scripting

Implemented CI/CD with automated testing in Jenkins, Github Actions

Familiarity with AWS concepts and services such as VPC/Networking, IAM, RDS, EKS, Lambda, and S3

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work 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, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.

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