Software Engineer 2 (REMOTE)

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Software Engineer II to develop and design software products. This role involves collaborating with product teams to create scalable software solutions and participating in all phases of software development from coding to deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology
• Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems
• Collaborates with other team members in agile processes
• Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful
• Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• 2 years of work experience
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in version control systems
• Experience in front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience in source code version control
• Experience in Relational or noSQL database technology
• Experience in cloud computing techniques
• Experience in CI/CD tools
• Experience in microservice-based architecture
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests