Senior Principal Software Engineer - Generative AI & Mobile Platforms (Remote)

The Home Depot; Georgia; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to drive the mobile app renovation strategy and architecture across our high-performance ecosystem. You will champion AI-first development and lead cross-functional teams to innovate and scale our platforms.

You will define technology roadmaps, mentor engineers, and influence architecture decisions across the organization while ensuring efficient delivery and cost-conscious cloud usage.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience in Agile/Lean development environments.
• Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT.

Responsibilities

• Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment and knowledge sharing.
• Presents at conferences and mentors teams; provides leadership and performance feedback.
• Defines technology solutions and roadmaps; unifies strategy across local teams.
• Escalates high-priority issues and collaborates with vendors to implement enhancements.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture leadership

Agile/Lean development

Cloud cost optimization

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Kotlin Multiplatform

Server-Driven UI (SDUI)

GraphQL

Microservices

JVM

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will serve as the chief technical architect and visionary leader for our Mobile App Renovation Strategy (MARS). You will define the future of our high-performance, modular, and intelligent mobile ecosystem. This role demands a world-class engineer who is deeply technical, possesses an extensive background in native mobile development and server-side orchestration, and can champion innovative AI-first software development. You will report directly to senior technology leadership and lead cross-functional feature and platform teams to build our next-generation architecture. We are seeking a visionary leader who will not only build the platform but will also aggressively drive AI-first software development. You will establish, steer, and inspire our AI Tiger Team and directly influence how engineering teams utilize artificial intelligence throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
• 10% People - Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing extremely complex challenges; Presents at and attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies and concepts; Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports; Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback; Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
• 15% Strategy and Planning - Works with a Distinguished Engineer to define technology solutions (open source or vendor) teams should be exploring and/or leveraging; Works across local teams to unify strategy and alignment; Identifies and removes potential roadblocks & bottlenecks across large cross-functional projects and initiatives; Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps within a given portfolio; Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
• 25% Support and Enablement - Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise; Fields questions from project, product, and support teams; Helps solve technology disputes across local teams; Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products; Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position reports to various individuals. This position has 4-6 direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
• Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
• Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
• 7 years of relevant work experience
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 15% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years leading architecture in a Principal or Senior Principal capacity for a major consumer-facing mobile application.
• Transformation Track Record: Proven track record of executing a major technology renovation or modernization strategy (preferably containing SDUI, KMP, and GraphQL BFF elements).
• Distributed Systems Mastery: Expert knowledge of microservices, server-side GraphQL patterns, and high-performance, multi-layered JVM in-memory caching.
• AI Expertise: Practical, hands-on experience using GenAI APIs, LLM prompt engineering, and code-generation tools/agents to accelerate development.
• Leadership & Influence: Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with a proven history of writing technical white papers, presenting architecture to executive leadership, and driving technical alignment across large engineering organizations (50+ engineers).

Tech Stack

• Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP): Architecting shared business logic layers.
• Server-Driven UI (SDUI): Designing extensible layout engines to dynamicize screen rendering.
• Native Platforms: Proficie