SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Workday

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to independently design, refactor, and deliver production software across teams. You will mentor peers, influence tool choices, and help ensure security, resilience, and performance in live systems.

You will tackle front-end and back-end challenges using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Java, and various databases in a cloud-enabled, CI/CD-driven environment. Expect collaboration, growth, and impact across a dynamic tech organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software with clear value; achieves results under pressure; builds test suites for rapid production deployment.
• 20% Learns and Grows - Seeks ways to grow by tackling new problems and using formal/informal development channels.
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates in agile processes; ensures user stories are valuable, developer ready, and testable; communicates across audiences.
• 10% Supports and Enables - Guides junior engineers and leads technical discussions.

Skills

Workday integrations

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Java

SQL/NoSQL databases

Cloud computing

CI/CD tools

Security/Authentication

Unit/Integration/Destructive testing

Debugging/root-cause analysis

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Position Purpose

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

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

• 2-4 years of relevant work experience
• Hands on experience with Workday integrations
• 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

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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $120,000.00 - $140,000.00