Sr. Software Engineer II, Buy

About Zoro Tools, Parts, and Supplies for Your Business™ Zoro has the tools, parts, and supplies your business needs to get the job done—all at affordable prices. Shop millions of products for every industry, from manufacturing and construction to plumbing, electrical, and more. We partner with thousands of distributors across the U.S. to deliver the items your business needs with fast, free shipping and friendly customer service. Considering a career with Zoro? Take the first step by exploring our open roles.

Zoro

Tools, Parts, and Supplies for Your Business™

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501-1,000 employees

Retail Office Equipment

Chicago, Illinois

2011

Public Company

23k LinkedIn followers

• As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Buy Product Engineering Team, you will
• work across our Buy experience and services, building Buy experiences and
• services that help customers complete their orders with confidence. You will own
• the full stack behind a critical moment in the customer journey - from
• responsive web interfaces to the services that submit, confirm, and recover
• orders - so every purchase is fast, accessible, and reliable.
• This is an end-to-end senior individual contributor role. You will independently
• own complex, well-scoped projects from technical design through production
• measurement, building polished web experiences and the APIs, integrations, and
• data flows behind them. You will partner closely with product, UX, analytics,
• platform, and adjacent commerce teams to make the purchase flow simpler and more
• reliable for every customer.
• Buy Product Engineering is your home team. As business priorities require, you
• may also take on focused assignments that support adjacent customer-facing
• teams, including SEO and Engage. In those assignments, you will bring the same
• full stack ownership, customer focus, and collaborative approach while working
• in the context of that team's goals and systems.
• confirmation, from technical design through production measurement.
• Build intuitive, accessible, and performant customer experiences using
• TypeScript and React, Vue, or a comparable modern web framework.
• Design and operate resilient APIs and services for purchase state, payment
• handoff, order submission, and confirmation.
• Engineer for the realities of a transaction flow: safe retries, clear failure
• states, idempotent behavior, dependency timeouts, and graceful recovery.
• Break ambiguous customer and business problems into sound technical
• approaches, thoughtful tradeoffs, and incremental delivery plans.
• Use feature flags, experiments, observability, and customer behavior data to
• improve completion, reliability, and ease of use.
• Partner with product, UX, analytics, platform, and dependent teams to deliver
• cohesive customer outcomes.
• Contribute to high-priority work for SEO and Engage when business needs call
• for additional engineering capacity or expertise.
• Raise the bar through pragmatic code reviews, strong testing practices, clear
• documentation, and mentoring.
• Customers can move from cart to completed order through a fast, accessible,
• and understandable purchase flow.
• Your systems are observable, well-tested, secure, and dependable under
• real-world traffic and failure conditions.
• You deliver project-level work with clear technical decisions, measurable
• outcomes, and strong operational readiness.
• The engineers around you become more effective because of the standards,
• context, and mentorship you provide.

Required

• 7+ years of experience building and operating customer-facing full stack web
• applications at meaningful scale.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript and experience delivering
• production applications in React, Vue, or a comparable modern framework.
• Strong backend engineering skills with Python and API/service development;
• Django or Flask experience is a plus.
• Experience building reliable, stateful workflows and integrating with
• services where correctness, recovery, and clear failure behavior matter.
• Experience designing systems that use relational and distributed data stores,
• asynchronous workflows, and cloud-native delivery practices.
• Practical understanding of web performance, accessibility, testing,
• observability, CI/CD, security, and privacy.
• Demonstrated judgment in system design: you can balance customer value,
• technical risk, delivery speed, and long-term maintainability.
• Clear, collaborative communication and a habit of using data and customer
• outcomes to guide decisions.

Preferred

• transaction-heavy customer workflows.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or
• comparable technologies.
• Experience working with experimentation platforms, product analytics, feature
• flags, and measurable customer outcomes.
• We value ownership, practical judgment, and learning in the open. The strongest
• candidates are customer-minded builders who care about craft, can collaborate
• across disciplines, and are equally comfortable improving an existing system or
• creating a new path when the problem calls for it.
• Zoro’s total compensation plan includes our Zoro Incentive Plan (ZIP) that is
• designed to foster and reward our team members for strong performance. Total
• compensation will be highly competitive.
• In addition to competitive compensation, Zoro offers comprehensive benefits and

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on
• day one of employment
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave
• for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents. We also
• support growing your family through access to adoption assistance program
• 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist and Wellhub portal
• membership to support your mental and emotional wellbeing
• At least 18 paid time off days annually for full-time employees and 6 company
• holidays per year
• 6% company contribution to a 401K Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no
• employee contribution required
• Tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and access to financial
• counseling, education, and tools
• Charitable Gift Program - match gift to an eligible educational, cultural,
• community health, and human service organizations
• Employee discounts and admission to various civic and cultural institutions
• around Chicago
• Zoro office perks including coffee bar, beer on tap, unlimited snacks, access
• to the onsite gym, and incredible city skyline views
• For additional information and details regarding our benefits and our parent
• company, W. W. Grainger, please click on the link here
• The pay range provided is not a guarantee of compensation. The range listed
• reflects the expected base pay for this position at the time of posting, based
• on the role's job grade. Actual compensation may vary depending on factors such
• as location, relevant experience and individual qualifications.
• Illinois
• $115,600—$192,600 USD