SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Payroll & AI

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to independently develop and refactor products to meet customer and associate needs.

You will join a dynamic team that grows technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. You may contribute to tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, and production monitoring as well as mentoring less experienced engineers.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
3+ years of relevant work experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software with a focus on delivering value.
Learns and grows by tackling new problems and seeking growth opportunities.
Collaborates with the Product Team and stakeholders, ensuring user stories are valuable and testable.
Mentors junior engineers and leads technical discussions.

Skills

Global Perspective

Manages Ambiguity

Nimble Learning

Self-Development

Collaborates

Cultivates Innovation

Situational Adaptability

Communicates Effectively

Drives Results

Interpersonal Savvy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday Payroll

AI/Automation tools

APIs

Cloud computing

CI/CD tools

Security frameworks

Debugging tools

Version control system

Job description

Position Purpose

The Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for independently developing and consistently redesigning/refactoring a product to adapt to our customers and associates needs. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Sr. Software Engineers may be involved in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring as well as mentoring less experienced engineers.

Position Purpose

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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

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
This position has 0 Direct Reports

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.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Workday Payroll or similar payroll/HCM platforms, including system configuration and business process optimization.
Experience leveraging AI, automation, or intelligent workflow solutions to improve processes and data quality.
Technical mindset with exposure to software development, integrations, APIs, or AI-driven tools.
Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, solve complex problems, and drive innovation through emerging technologies.
2-4 years of relevant work experience
Experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java), Relational or noSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns
Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Experience with version control system

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