Featured: Sr. Software Engineer, Headless at Zoro
Location: Chicago
Job Type: Full-Time
Description:
Job Summary:
As part of Zoro’s Production Engineering group, the Headless eCommerce (HEC) team builds, maintains, and evolves the services and infrastructure powering Zoro's critical order-placement systems, including cart, checkout, and order fulfillment.
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and implementation of backend solutions, empowering other engineering teams through a platform-first approach. This role involves driving technical innovation, developing a deep understanding of end-to-end business processes, and fostering stronger full-stack collaboration across teams.
You will also maintain strong alignment and close collaboration with Product Management to ensure technical solutions directly support business and customer needs. This role offers significant growth opportunities for engineers looking to strengthen their leadership and technical skills.
Duties and Responsibilities:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Help drive the ever evolving HEC platform, enabling other engineering teams to independently develop and enhance backend services.
Collaborate closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to deeply understand, optimize, and improve the end-to-end ordering process.
Participate in defining technical roadmaps, aligning closely with broader business objectives and product strategy.
Mentor engineers across teams, promoting a culture of full-stack ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems, proactively identifying and implementing improvements.
Lead code reviews and enforce best practices, maintaining high standards for code quality, security, maintainability, and technical documentation.
Collaborate with security engineers to define and implement robust security strategies, ensuring systems meet compliance and best practices.
Resolve high-priority technical issues within a support rotation, identifying opportunities for process and system improvements.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on work building and deploying cloud-based systems (GCP preferred).
Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Python and Typescript preferred).
Experience working closely with product management and multiple engineering teams, enabling technical alignment and platform utilization across teams.
Demonstrated capability in enabling other teams through clear documentation, effective API design, and self-service tools.
Proven track record in designing and building scalable, highly available cloud-based microservices with a strong focus on non-functional requirements such as reliability, maintainability, and observability.
Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
In depth expertise of infrastructure-as-code and deploying cloud-based microservices using modern CI/CD workflows.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable partnering across multiple teams and clearly communicating technical concepts.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with front-end frameworks and an understanding of component-based architecture and reactive data models.
Familiarity with MACH architecture and headless commerce concepts.
Experience aligning technical platform teams closely with broader product-driven roadmaps.
Experience partnering with staff engineers to ideate, iterate, and refine technical solutions and approaches.
Demonstrated enthusiasm for continuous learning, adaptability, and desire to grow into larger technical and leadership roles.
Company Website: https://www.zoro.com/
Job Posted by: Bernard Estanislao
How To Apply:
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