Software Engineering Manager - Pro Quote Center, Nonstock (Remote)

The Home Depot; Georgia; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Software Engineer Manager for the Pro Quote Center Nonstock team to lead engineering talent and deliver scalable software solutions. You will partner with Product, business, and technology stakeholders to translate needs into actionable execution and drive alignment across teams.

You will develop engineering talent, foster collaboration, and establish a culture of engineering excellence while influencing technical direction and delivery strategies across multiple

Qualifications

• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Experience guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Experience balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and pairs with 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
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Skills

Java

Python

Team leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spring MVC

Ruby on Rails

Node.js

SQL

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

As a Software Engineer Manager supporting the Pro Quote Center Nonstock team, you will lead engineering talent and technology delivery within a highly visible, cross-functional area of the business. You will partner closely with Product, business, and technology stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable solutions, influence technical direction, and drive alignment and execution across teams. You will also develop engineering talent and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:

• Collaborates and pairs with 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
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
• Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
• Provides application support for software running in production
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

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.
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Experience balancing workloads across teams
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

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:

5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

None

Certifications:

None

Competencies:

At