Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

The Home Depot; New York (NY); Remote; USD 80,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to independently develop, refactor, and deploy production applications that meet customer and associate needs. You will work with an agile team, mentor peers, and contribute to product selection, security, and performance monitoring.

Responsibilities include delivering software, planning with teams, and guiding junior engineers while supporting large-scale data environments and enterprise-grade systems.

Qualifications

• Must have at least a bachelor's degree.
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience is listed as preferred.
• Experience building and supporting back-end applications that process financial transaction data.
• Proven API design and microservices experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, test, deploy, and maintain software with clear value delivery.
• Collaborate with team in agile processes and communicate to diverse audiences.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical discussions.
• Drive multiple initiatives and ensure delivery of modules and features.

Skills

Java

Kafka

Pub/Sub

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Elasticsearch

GCP

BigQuery

Data solutions

Lead engineers

Mentoring

Event-driven

Real-time processing

High-throughput systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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

Position Purpose

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.

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

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

• 2-4 years of relevant work experienceExperience 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.

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

Preferred Years of Work Experience

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience

None

Preferred Leadership Experience

None

Certifications

None

Competencies

• Global PerspectiveManages AmbiguityNimble LearningSelf-DevelopmentCollaboratesCultivates InnovationSituational AdaptabilityCommunicates EffectivelyDrives ResultsInterpersonal Savvy

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $80,000.00 - $180,000.00