Software Engineer II - Backend (Remote)

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

10 hours ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer II in Atlanta to independently develop and assist in product design. You will work with a diverse team to build, deploy, and support production applications while expanding technical and leadership skills.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of relevant experience, strong SQL, Java, and front-end skills, and familiarity with CI/CD and cloud practices. Join a team focused on secure, scalable software and impactful customer experiences.

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
Minimum 2 years of professional software development experience.
Strong SQL and front-end experience with HTML/CSS/JS.
Experience with Java and object-oriented design.

Responsibilities

Develop and design production-ready software features.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver aligned solutions.
Implement tests, monitoring, and automated deployment pipelines.
Triage issues, optimize performance, and ensure security best practices.

Skills

SQL queries

HTML/CSS/JS

Java (OOP)

Version control

Microservices

Cloud computing

AI-assisted coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

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.

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Position Purpose

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 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 relational or NoSQL database technology
Experience in cloud computing techniques
Experience in CI/CD tools
Experience in AI-assisted software development using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Gemini Enterprise, or Claude Code for coding, debugging, documentation, or AI agent development
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