Summary from listing
Grainger is hiring a Lead Software Engineer (Software Engineer IV) for its Customer Information Management team in Chicago. The role leads the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of scalable backend services and APIs supporting high-volume customer address capabilities, while establishing engineering standards, observability, reliability, security, and reusable platform components. Responsibilities include technical strategy, incident response, technical debt reduction, emerging technology evaluation, and mentoring engineers. The position requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, at least five years of production software experience, and expertise in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, microservices, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redis, Kubernetes, and observability platforms.
