Sr. Software Engineer, Data Products
Zoro · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 76 days Zoro's roles stay open a median of 77 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Zoro's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Zoro
- high 10 stale, 1 reposted of 11 open
- Hiring momentum
- 19 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Zoro's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Zoro.
About this role
In this role, you will be part of a data engineering team transitioning to a software engineering focus, where you will build APIs, backend services, and data-processing systems. You will engage in system design, participate in design reviews, and take ownership of the systems you develop, including deployment and operation. A key aspect of the role is the integration of AI into your engineering practices, requiring active experimentation and collaboration with your team.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Zoro as an employer.
What you need
- Experience building backend services, internal platforms, developer tools, or distributed applications
- Experience designing APIs and operational databases
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing, queues, event-driven systems, or change-data capture
- Experience handling idempotency, retries, concurrency, and backward compatibility
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability
- Experience with data pipelines, analytical systems, data modeling, or large-scale data movement
What you get
- 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
- 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
Worth weighing
- The role emphasizes software engineering over traditional data engineering tasks, which may not suit all candidates
- Active use of AI is a core expectation; candidates not interested in AI-assisted engineering may not fit well
- The job requires participation in an on-call rotation, which may involve additional responsibilities outside regular hours
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Listed by Zoro on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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