Summary from listing
Grainger is hiring a Lead Software Engineer (Software Engineer IV) to lead the development and optimization of search systems for its product catalog. The role focuses on lexical and semantic retrieval, hybrid and reranking strategies, learning-to-rank, search quality measurement, and experimentation. Responsibilities include leading engineering, mentoring developers, conducting code reviews, maintaining production software, and partnering with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Architecture. The position requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, at least five years of software engineering experience, Java and Python expertise, distributed search knowledge, and hands-on experience with embeddings and vector search.
