Senior Software Engineering Technical Coach

About Grainger:

Grainger is a broad line distributor with operations in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with multiple products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money.

We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is you. Find your way with Grainger today.

Position Details: 

As a Senior Software Engineer Coach, you will work across people, process, and technology to guide teams along their continuous improvement journey and empower them to make better software. 

You will partner with Technical Practice leads and participate in a range of activities to better understand the broad product and technical roadmap of Grainger Technology Group (GTG) and what it will take to deliver for our customers. 

Reporting to the Sr Manager of Coaching and Dojo, you will be based either in Chicago or Lake Forest, IL or remotely. 

  

You Will: 

• Work with diverse teams to understand how work moves to engineering teams and how they communicate progress and impediments. 

• Within a Dojo (Immersive learning) team, lead and coach development teams in implementing DevSecOps good practices related to developing, securing, deploying, and maintaining software solutions.  

• Have a bias towards action. Build software pipelines that provide fast feedback and coach the team on how to maintain them on their own. 

• Have high curiosity quotient and Technical Agility. Know how to use and teach people how to use platforms and shared capabilities built by other teams to learn new and evolving technologies. 

• Should have a fundamental understanding and appreciation of large enterprise System and complexities of interaction between diverse modules, monoliths and /or microservices. Should be able to assess maturity of systems and articulate value streams and or bottlenecks if any. 

• Collaborate with Agile, Security, Testing, SRE and other partners to continually enhance immersive learning programs. 

• Work closely with the Development, Security, Infrastructure, Operations and Testing teams to make sure Continuous Security, Infrastructure as a Code, Continuous Testing and Monitoring are integral part of the software development value stream.  

• Provide hands-on assistance and guidance of environment setup (dev, test, prod), pipeline automation, and streamlining the standup and scale-out of infrastructure. 

  

You Have: 

• At least 5 years of experience working in or with technology teams 

• Experience building production applications or components in 2 or more programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Node.JS, ReactJS, or other. 

• Experience working in a public Cloud (AWS, etc) across multiple services and technologies including containerization (Kubernetes), a microservices architecture, application services, databases and networking 

• Experience with cone

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs

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