Senior Software Engineer - IBM Sterling (Remote)

The Home Depot; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and support payment orchestration services for omni-channel orders, integrating IBM Sterling OMS with downstream processors.

You will develop resilient microservices on GKE and PCF, focusing on high-availability, observability, and secure data handling in transactional systems.

Join a collaborative, fast-paced team that values learning, ownership, and delivering reliable payment experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of distributed microservices experience in production.
• Backend Java/Spring Boot in production environments.
• API design and external system integration experience.
• Experience with IBM Sterling OMS configuration/integration.
• Event-driven architectures with Kafka/ Pub/Sub/ IBM MQ.
• GCP environments with Kubernetes/GKE experience.
• Secure data handling in transactional systems.
• Troubleshooting high-availability production systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software delivering measurable value.
• Collaborate in agile processes; ensure user stories are valuable and testable.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical discussions.
• Design APIs and integrate with external enterprise systems.

Skills

Distributed microservices

Java

Spring Boot

API design

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Event-driven

Observability

Security

High-volume transactions

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

IBM Sterling OMS

Kafka

Google Pub/Sub

IBM MQ

Grafana

CI/CD

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

Design, build, and support highly available, distributed payment orchestration services that manage the full money lifecycle for omni-channel orders within Customer Order Management (COM). This role focuses on coordinating payment workflows-including authorization, fraud hold management, reverse authorization, charge (billing), and refunds-by integrating IBM Sterling (order system of record) with downstream payment processors and tender systems. The Software Engineer is responsible for developing resilient, event-driven microservices across hybrid platforms (GKE in Google Cloud and PCF/Cloud Foundry on-prem), ensuring accurate payment state management, high-volume transaction reliability, and observability across the ecosystem.

Key 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

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

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.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed microservices in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience developing backend microservices using Java and Spring Boot in a production environment.
• Experience designing and developing APIs and integrating with external enterprise systems.
• Experience working with IBM Sterling OMS, including configuration, customization, or integration.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or IBM MQ).
• Experience building and deploying applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, including containerized workloads running on Kubernetes/GKE.
• Understanding of secure application development and data handling practices in transactional systems.
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting high-availability systems in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience developing and supporting applications integrated with IBM Sterling OMS, including customization, configuration, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience with application monitoring, observability, and operational support using Grafana, log analytics platforms, and automated monitoring solutions.
• Experience creating scripts and automation to support monitoring, alerting, operational diagnostics, and production support activities.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems using metrics, logs, dashboards, and tracing tools in large-scale production environments.

Minimum Education:

• 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.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy