Software Engineer, Warehouse Automation & Robotics

The Home Depot; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain software that orchestrates robotic warehouse operations, including AMR fleets, inventory movement, and order fulfillment.

You will build scalable, testable systems, APIs, and integrations with robotics platforms, collaborating with product and robotics engineering teams to ensure reliability and performance in production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java or Kotlin; Flutter/Dart desirable.
• Experience building distributed systems and APIs (Kafka, MQTT).
• Experience with key-value stores (Redis) and NoSQL.
• Understanding of software design principles and architectural patterns.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications supporting warehouse automation operations.
• Build services coordinating AMR fleets, inventory movement, and order fulfillment workflows.
• Develop scalable APIs, event-driven services, and user-facing applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews.
• Develop integrations between systems and robotics platforms.
• Contribute to simulation and testing using digital twins.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Flutter/Dart

APIs

Distributed systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

MQTT

Redis

NoSQL databases

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain software that orchestrates robotic warehouse operations, including AMR fleets, inventory movement, and order fulfillment.

You will build scalable, testable systems, APIs, and integrations with robotics platforms, collaborating with product and robotics engineering teams to ensure reliability and performance in production environments.