Senior Full Stack Developer - Distribution | Chicago, IL

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As a Full Stack Developer within the Bunzl Digital and eCom team, you will play a senior, hands-on individual contributor role focused on building, evolving, and scaling Bunzl’s digital, eCommerce, and AI-enabled capabilities.

This role is designed for a strong technical builder who leads through implemention, applies AI in practical ways, and helps teams move faster with confidence. Rher than opering as a traditional Solution Architect, this role emphasizes designing through code, pragmic decision-making, and delivering working solutions.

The role follows a hybrid working model, balancing in-office collaborion in our Morton Grove, IL office with flexible remote work based on team and business needs. You will partner closely with leadership and engineering teams in technical direction, execution, and AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and enhance scalable software solutions across Bunzl’s digital and eCommerce capabilities.
• Act as a senior hands-on engineer, owning critical components and workflows from design through production.
• Identify and implement AI-driven use cases, including automion, intelligent workflows, da enrichment, and operional efficiency.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
• Recommend and evalue modern technology stacks, frameworks, and tools aligned with Bunzl’s long-term digital and AI stregy.
• Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and Plform teams to support architecture reviews, security approvals, and responsible AI adoption.
• Collabore closely with product managers and engineers in a hybrid work environment to deliver business value.
• Establish and follow engineering best practices, including code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and automion.
• Build and maintain integrions with internal systems, third-party plforms, cloud services, and da sources.
• Work with da plforms such as Dabricks, Snowflake, and relional dabases (e.g., Postgres) to support analytics, automion, and AI use cases.
• Identify technical bottlenecks and risks and propose practical, scalable solutions.
• Wear multiple hs as needed: builder, advisor, reviewer, AI experimenter, and mentor in a small, high-impact team.
• Support modernizion initiives while effectively working with existing plforms and legacy systems when required.

Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Informion Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with strong depth across backend, frontend, APIs, and integrions.
• Proven experience building and supporting production systems in cloud environments (Azure preferred).
• Strong experience with modern applicion development and distributed systems.
• Practical experience applying AI or AI-assisted tools in engineering or plform workflows (formal ML background not required).
• Experience evaluing and recommending technology stacks in collaborion with engineering, security, and plform teams.
• Comfort working with security and compliance teams on approvals and production readiness.
• Experience working with digital or eCommerce plforms is a plus.
• Ability to work across both modern and legacy systems; AS400 experience is a plus.
• Strong communicion skills with the ability to explain technical and AI-reled decisions clearly to business and leadership.
• Ability to opere effectively in a small, fast-moving team and adapt as technology evolves.

AI Tools & Engineering Environment

This role will actively use Bunzl’s preferred AI-enabled engineering tools, including:

• GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code for AI-assisted development
• Azure AI Foundry (GPT models) for building and integring AI-driven workflows
• N8N, Zapier, or similar tools for workflow automion and system integrion
• Experience integring AI APIs and models (ChGPT, Gemini, Claude) into applicions to improve sales processes, customer experiences, and operional workflows
• The expection is to use these tools responsibly and practically, focusing on real productivity gains, automion, and measurable business outcomes.

Bunzl salary range for this role is $150,000-$190,000. 

The perks of being a Bunzl team member don’t stop being part of a gre team or being valued as our #1 asset. We offer a full range of benefits to help our employees take care of themselves and their families today, tomorrow and for the future.

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits effective the 1st day of the month after 30 days - Minimum 30 hours per week
• Paid Time Off - Vacion, Sick, Holidays and Personal Time
• 401K with generous company mch
• Additional benefit informion can be found on the Bunzl Careers home page under Benefits and Perks. 

Bunzl North America is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non‑Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to exceed $10 billion in sales. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Bunzl operes more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 stes, Puerto Rico, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 10,000 team members and over 400,000 supplies, Bunzl is recognized as a leading supplier across North America—and proudly certified as a Gre Place to Work®. At Bunzl, you’ll find Unlimited Potential… Your Career - - Our Future!

Bunzl Distribution offers competitive salaries, a comfortable work environment, and a full range of benefits including a 401k with a company mch.

Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to tract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, nional origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual oriention, age, disability or veteran stus as provided by law.

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