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About the Role
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join the KeepStock engineering team. This role will lead a team that builds and maintains an API and asynchronous platform that provides the constructs and domain concepts that form the backbone of the KeepStock transformational system. We are looking for a leader who encourages teamwork, communicates effectively with senior leadership, and has a clear vision of what determines a successful solution for the team, the customer, and our company.
Responsibilities
- Leads, coaches, and develops a team of software engineers by setting performance expectations, providing ongoing feedback, supporting career development, building AI fluency and adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, and fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture.
- Partners with Product Management, User Experience, Machine Learning Scientists, and technology stakeholders to translate product roadmaps and business priorities into delivery plans, engineering objectives, resource allocation, and successful execution of product initiatives.
- Manages the delivery of software solutions by overseeing planning, development, testing, deployment, and production support activities while ensuring solutions meet quality, security, scalability, reliability, and performance standards.
- Establishes and reinforces engineering standards, Agile delivery practices, DevSecOps principles, AI-assisted software engineering practices, code quality expectations, and continuous integration and deployment processes to improve engineering effectiveness and product quality.
- Monitors team performance, delivery metrics, operational health, customer experience, and engineering outcomes by identifying risks, resolving delivery issues, implementing process improvements, and driving continuous operational excellence.
- Collaborates with engineering leaders, architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Security, and platform teams to resolve complex technical and operational challenges, support technology modernization initiatives, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and governance.
- Performs other work assignments as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent required
- 5+ years progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or related technology roles.
- 5+ years experience leading software development teams, technical teams, or Agile delivery teams with responsibility for coaching, performance management, and work prioritization.
- Experience delivering software solutions using Agile methodologies and modern software engineering practices in cloud-based environments preferred
- Knowledge of software engineering principles, system architecture, Agile delivery methodologies, DevSecOps practices, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization, and modern application development frameworks.
- Ability to evaluate, adopt, and lead the effective use of AI-enabled engineering tools and practices to improve developer productivity, software quality, operational efficiency, and delivery outcomes while maintaining engineering standards and appropriate human oversight.
- Ability to lead software development teams through planning, execution, deployment, operational support, continuous improvement, and delivery of customer-focused technology solutions.
- Knowledge of engineering governance, software quality, application security, operational monitoring, incident management, and performance measurement within enterprise technology environments.
- Ability to develop technical talent, coach engineers, manage team performance, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, and influence engineering decisions to achieve business and technology objectives.
- Strong communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance delivery commitments, operational needs, and team development.
- Position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Kotlin (JVM) with Spring Boot
- Microservices and API-first architecture, event-driven integration (Kafka)
- Data platforms and pipelines (Snowflake, Databricks)
- Cloud (AWS), platform usage, and containerization
- Observability and monitoring tools (DataDog)
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years progressive experience in software engineering, application development, or related technology roles.
- 5+ years experience leading software development teams, technical teams, or Agile delivery teams with responsibility for coaching, performance management, and work prioritization.
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent required
Salary/Compensations
- $124,200.00 – $207,000.00
- incentive target of up to 15 %
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one
- 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist
- 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees
- 6 company holidays per year
- 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period
- Employee discounts
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan refinancing
- Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools
- Maternity support programs
- Nursing benefits
- up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents
- up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents
About the Company
- 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 maintenance, 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, and MonotaRO.com offers more than 24 million products.
- KeepStock is Grainger’s Inventory Management Solution for helping its customers streamline their inventory management processes and improve productivity.
- KeepStock is in the middle of a digital transformation where it is shifting from an on-premise monolithic architecture to a cloud-based microservices architecture.
- KeepStock has teams building full-stack web experiences, microservices, event-streaming based reporting capabilities, and IoT platforms using modern development techniques and technologies.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 is inclusive of 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.