Staff Software Engineer

You will work as a Staff engineer on a Customer Order team. The team is responsible for largely three things:  Make orders searchable across multiple channels via a HTTP API, for example https://www.grainger.com/myaccount/orderhistory#orderHistory. We see our customers order from their Order history and these “re-orders” account for ~6% of order revenue.   Provide updates about Orders via Kafka events. This supports various systems like sending you an update email about your order!  Curate Order data from across our ordering ecosystem for operational and analytical use. This enables the organization to use data-driven insight in the prioritization of work.    To give you a perspective of our scale, we work with 100,000+ Kafka messages a day, 7 years of Order data, millions of user accounts. We deploy Spring Boot/Kotlin microservices, leverage most of the Kafka APIs, and work with Databricks/Snowflake to curate our data.     Placing orders is at the core of Grainger’s business and we own an important part in that interaction with customers. If you are eager to learn, bring a growth mindset and humble attitude you might be what we are looking for.  "This position is not eligible for any form of sponsorship now or in the future.  Individuals requiring sponsorship (e.g. OPT or H1B visa status) should not apply. Only individuals authorized to work in the United States now and for the foreseeable future will be considered for this position."    You will Lead engineer on a team responsible for the application and delivery of high-quality, maintainable software for highly complex applications Influence team adoption of sensible defaults to enable continuous delivery activities Contribute to continuous learning on your team culture by leading knowledge sharing sessions with latest technological features and engineering practices Maintain software in production with demonstrated ability to triage and resolve issues Mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and participate in pair programming Partners directly with IT Management team to ensure successful design and delivery of technology based solutions   You have Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in computer science or similar; or equivalent experience required 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer; with experience in modern software engineering; designing; devloping, testing and deploying scalable software applications within a variety of technologies and environments. required Expert knowledge of programming skills Demonstrated knowledge of distributed system design and integration patterns Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and Dev Ops Practices Experience with analyzing, interpreting and communicating complex problems and practices