Software Engineer (Hybrid) Bolingbrook, IL

Company Overview

S&S Activewear is the leading wholesaler to the imprintable apparel and uniform market in the United States and Canada. Since 1988, we’ve provided high-quality, imprintable apparel to our broad wholesale customer base. We offer high-quality apparel that allows your customers to express their creativity through wearable art through concert merchandise, school & team apparel, marathons and fun runs company stores, theme park gift shops and everyone in between!

Today, we offer the most extensive and accessible collection of fashion-forward styles around. And we get you the goods fast. We operate eight nationwide distribution centers—that’s 4 million square feet of efficient warehouse space—and uniquely offer the largest one & two-day distribution footprint in the industry, with its products reaching 99% of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico within two days and 44 states in just one day.

We offer more than 100 brands, including Adidas, Champion, Columbia, Dickies, Fruit of the Loom, Gildan, Oakley, Richardson, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.

We have grown from a successful midwestern t-shirt and fleece distributor into an industry leader with approximately $2.5 billion in annual sales. In March 2021, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (“CD&R”) acquired S&S Activewear. CD&R believed S&S to be a leading distribution platform with sustainable competitive advantage following significant strategic investments in its geographic reach, people, and technology.

About Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is all about investing with a purpose. They're a private investment firm that really focuses on turning companies into stronger, more profitable versions of themselves. From the beginning they have overseen the investment of over $35 billion across 100 different companies, and those deals add up to a total value of more than $150 billion. The CD&R firm has offices in both New York and London.

In this role, you’ll be developing and implementing technical solutions that give S&S Activewear a competitive advantage. These systems are the engine that drives the company and will continue the company's year over year growth. As part of the development team, your voice will make an immediate impact on the existing projects and plans for the future.

Along with developing and improving the existing ERP system, you will be creating new tools and mobile applications in a cloud-based environment. The ideal candidate is an experienced developer capable of delivering business value to internal and external stakeholders.

Schedule

Monday-Friday, Full-Time, Exempt

Location - Bolingbrook, IL (Hybrid Available)

Benefits

• Vacation, Personal, and Sick time.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short/Long term disability
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401K with a 3% company contribution
• Discounts on brand-name apparel
• Employee events
• Opportunities for advancement

Duties & Responsibilities

• Apply industry best practices and techniques to design, develop, test, deploy, support, and maintain custom custom-developed suite of dot Net applications based on business requirements using approved technologies and coding standards.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop new features.
• Identify and correct the software defects to maintain the existing software systems.
• Maintain code quality through unit testing.
• Improve application and query performances.
• Contribute towards the timely completion of development tasks and small projects while applying company standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack software development experience with Object Oriented programming languages including .Net (C#/VB.Net)
• Experience with relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle required
• Proficient in writing complex queries
• Comfortable building features integrating with external services over APIs
• Experience in front-end software development using HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Familiarity working in an Agile development environment
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills
• Self-starter and able to handle multiple tasks and priorities
• Previous experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

Working Environment

Currently, S&S has a remote work policy which provides for employees to be in the office Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which is subject to change based on business need. Position location: Bolingbrook, IL.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions. S&S has a remote work policy which provides for employees to be in the office Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

S&S Activewear welcomes people of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to creating a diverse culture and supporting human growth. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We conduct business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. Our policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer, and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons. S&S participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S. This job offer is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background check.