Software Engineer 2 (Remote)

The Home Depot; Georgia; Remote; USD 50,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer II to independently develop and design products loved by customers and associates. You will join a dynamic team, contribute to production apps, and participate in configuration, security, resilience, and monitoring tasks.

The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and delivering reliable software. Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of experience, GoLang and backend API expertise, and proficiency with Grafana/Prometheus, GCP, SQL, and modern frontend

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience in software engineering.
• Experience with GoLang and backend API development required.

Responsibilities

• 60% Delivery and Execution: build secure, scalable software; ensure quality and change control standards.
• 20% Learning: pursue growth through formal and informal channels; learn from experiments.
• 20% Plans and Aligns: collaborate in Agile processes; build partnerships to meet objectives.

Skills

GoLang

Backend API development

SQL queries

Java

CI/CD

Microservices

Security concepts

Unit testing

Destructive testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

React

HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript

Git/version control

Job description

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

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:

No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

2

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

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 $50,000.00 - $130,000.00