Software Engineer II - Technical Leadership Track

How You'll Make an Impact

As part of our software engineering team, you'll develop the high-scale production software that powers our e-commerce experience and our world-class operations. From customer-facing web features to distribution center automation, we design and scale critical systems that enable McMaster-Carr to deliver same-day or next-day orders reliably and efficiently. This is a track to grow into technical leadership roles that include people, project, and technology management responsibilities. Your progression is driven by the impact of your work.

As a software engineer, you'll work on projects like

• Improve how customers find what they need on our website - You will build and evolve the systems that help our customers find, evaluate, and understand millions of industrial products across our digital publications. This includes improving search relevance with LLMs and simplifying navigation across our product offering that makes our website faster and easier to use.
• McMaster.ai: Build and scale our domain-expert AI assistant that turns McMaster's product data and customer history into a continuously learning assistant that interprets intent, narrows options, explains tradeoffs, and carries context across sessions to make complex industrial work feel effortless.
• Make fulfillment smarter and help us plan ahead - Design systems that improve how we pick, pack, and ship orders so thousands of customers each day get what they need, faster.

What You'll Do

• The first 30 days are about learning with purpose: understanding our goals, getting a clear picture of the customer journey, and building fluency in the codebase. As you onboard, you'll develop features that are small enough to help you ramp quickly, but substantial enough to matter.
• As you continue to design, implement, and deliver features, you'll start taking on less-defined challenges where you'll sharpen requirements in addition to developing thoughtful solutions that meaningfully improve the customers' experience. In doing so, you'll create clarity and momentum that enables you and your teammates to deliver exceptional experiences.
• As you progress you will begin to coach others and broaden your collaboration. This can look like participation in code reviews, mentoring more junior engineers, and contributing to team-wide engineering quality. You will continue to work across teams as you design and implement features that can impact our customers.
• Throughout your career you will drive your development. You will develop domain expertise, explore new technologies, and bring new perspectives to the challenges your team is tackling. In doing so, you'll create clarity and momentum that enables you and your teammates to deliver exceptional experiences.

How You'll Grow

• You will start by diving into assignments that require thoughtful solutions and a deep understanding of the customer benefit or business need, not just execution. You will develop larger features with open questions that require you to do research and think through and discuss tradeoffs before implementation.

Who You Are

We're looking for curious, driven engineers who thrive in collaborative environments and are energized by solving hard problems.

Ideal candidates will have

• Contributed to live projects or deployed applications used by real users.
• Strong proficiency in compiled languages such as C#, Java, C++, or Rust.
• A thoughtful, analytical approach to problem-solving and software design.
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code with Systems Design and SOLID principles.
• Experience improving system architecture, testing, and monitoring to ensure reliability and performance.
• Clear, confident communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interest in growing as a mentor, coach, and leader.

Cash Compensation

• Total cash compensation is generally around $185,000 to $230,000 and includes a profit sharing based on company profitability.
• You will also receive a signing bonus and relocation stipend

Benefits

Growth & Learning

• 100% tuition reimbursement
• Informal and formal mentorship
• Employee resource groups

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, dental, pharmacy, and vision plans with no monthly premiums
• Inclusive, all-gender benefits

Family & Future

• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance
• First-time home buyer assistance
• Industry-leading company-funded retirement accounts

Time Off

• Paid vacation and personal time