Software Engineer 2 (Remote)

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

Remote

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer II to independently develop and contribute to a customer- and associate-focused product. You will join a dynamic team, tackle production applications, and help design, deploy, and monitor services.

The role emphasizes GoLang backend API development, cloud skills in GCP, and modern debugging with dashboards and alerts. 2+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree are expected.

Qualifications

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
2+ years of relevant work experience preferred.
Experience in GoLang and backend API development is required.
Experience with Grafana/Prometheus and Google Cloud Platform is preferred.
Experience in SQL and relational databases; familiarity with NoSQL is a plus.
Experience with front-end tech (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript) and React is beneficial.
Familiarity with Java and object-oriented programming.
Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to work in a distributed, Agile environment.

Responsibilities

60% Delivery and Execution – Collaborates with product team to build secure, scalable software; documents and ensures quality; writes automation for infra, monitoring, and tests; configures and tunes large projects; creates dashboards and alerting.
20% Learning – Seeks growth through formal and informal channels and learns from experiments.
20% Plans and Aligns – Works in Agile processes, builds partnerships, and helps the team succeed.

Skills

GoLang

Backend API development

HTML/CSS/JS/TS

Java

Security frameworks (auth)

Unit tests & performance tests

CI/CD

Microservices

Debugging / root cause analysis

Cloud computing concepts

Relational/NoSQL databases

Agile / collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

Grafana

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

React

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

CI/CD tools

Job description

Req195675

Position Purpose The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, 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, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

60% Delivery and Execution – Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
20% Learning – Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems
20% Plans and Aligns – Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position typically repots 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

1-3 years of relevant work experience
Experience in GoLang and backend API development is an absolute requirement
Experience in Grafana, Promethius and Google Cloud Platform
Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
Experience in version control systems
Experience in front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks
Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
Experience in source code version control
Experience in PostGres SQL and React
Experience in Relational or noSQL database technology
Experience in cloud computing techniques
Experience in CI/CD tools
Experience in microservice-based architecture
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests

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