Senior Backend Engineer: APIs, Microservices & Cloud

The Home Depot; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to independently develop and refactor a product, shaping it for customers and associates. You will mentor engineers, help with API design, and contribute to a scalable backend stack built with Java, Kafka, RESTful APIs, and microservices on GCP.

Responsibilities cover delivery, learning, planning, and enabling others, with a focus on production readiness, secure deployments, and cross-team collaboration in a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience leading small engineering teams or technical workstreams, driving multiple initiatives simultaneously, and ensuring successful delivery of assigned modules and features.
• 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.
• 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.

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 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 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

Skills

Leadership

Mentor engineers

Communicates effectively

Delivery and execution

Global perspective

Nimble learning

Drives results

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Java

Kafka

Pub/Sub

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Elasticsearch

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

BigQuery

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to independently develop and refactor a product, shaping it for customers and associates. You will mentor engineers, help with API design, and contribute to a scalable backend stack built with Java, Kafka, RESTful APIs, and microservices on GCP.

Responsibilities cover delivery, learning, planning, and enabling others, with a focus on production readiness, secure deployments, and cross-team collaboration in a large enterprise environment.