Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop, deploy, maintain, and support production applications for customer and associate needs. The role focuses on scalable backend applications, APIs, microservices, testing, performance, security, monitoring, agile collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
• 20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• 10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

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
• 3
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience building and supporting high-volume, enterprise-scale backend applications that process and store financial transaction data, including POS, eCommerce, and self-checkout receipt systems
• Proven experience designing and developing APIs from scratch and building scalable microservices architectures
• Hands-on experience with Java, Kafka, Pub/Sub, RESTful APIs, Microservices, and Elasticsearch
• Experience working within Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery and cloud-native data solutions
• Demonstrated success supporting large-scale data environments handling millions of daily transactions and multi-billion record datasets
• Experience leading small engineering teams or technical workstreams, driving multiple initiatives simultaneously, and ensuring successful delivery of assigned modules and features
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor engineers, track delivery commitments, and hold teams accountable for execution and performance
• Experience serving as the technical face of a product, platform, or initiative, effectively collaborating with business stakeholders, product teams, and senior leadership
• Background working in large enterprise organizations with complex, highly distributed systems and mission-critical applications
• Experience with event-driven architectures, real-time data processing, and high-throughput transaction platforms