Staff Software Engineer

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a cross-functional team in delivering customer- and associate-facing software. You will shape architectural decisions, drive production readiness, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product and security teams.

You will be responsible for design, testing, deployment, and monitoring of scalable systems, and you will help grow technical leadership within the team and across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in software engineering.
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript).
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or C# and modern software design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Delivery and execution of software from conception to production, with emphasis on quality and reliability.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers; lead technical discussions and code reviews.
• Plan work with product teams; ensure user stories are clear, testable, and ready for development.
• Contribute to architecture, tool selection, security, and production monitoring.

Skills

Global Perspective

Drives Results

Communicates Effectively

Collaborates

Nimble Learning

Self-Development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Java 17+

Spring Boot

Node.js

React.js

Python

GraphQL

REST APIs

Playwright

CI/CD tools

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Kubernetes

Job description

Position Purpose:

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for leading a team of engineers building and designing a product that our customers and associates love. As a Staff Software Engineer, 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, Staff Software Engineers will assist in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Staff Software Engineers contribute to foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a core player on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior Engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
• 10% Learns and Grows - 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 - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
• 20% Supports and Enables - Fields questions from product and engineering teams; Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions; Notes gaps on the team and provides suggestions for changes to make the team more productive

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position typically 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:

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Extensive experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java), Relational or noSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns
• Technology Stack Required(Full Stack):Languages & Frameworks: Java 17+ * Spring Boot * Node.js * React.js * Python * Django * GraphQL * REST APIs * Playwright * CucumberData & Messaging: Cassandra * BigQuery * PostgreSQL * Elasticsearch * GCP Pub/Sub * Cloud Functions * AirflowCloud & Infrastructure: GCP * GKE * GCR * Kubernetes * Service MeshAI & GenAI: Gemini * GitHub Copilot * Anthropic Claude * MCP * Agentic Engineering * AI-SDLCObservability & CI/CD: New Relic * OpenTelemetry * Grafana * Adobe Analytics * GitHub Actions * Spinnaker * Jenkins * SonarQube
• Experience in effective data modeling with both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control system
• Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
• Exposure to developing technical roadmaps including work estimation, refactoring and modernizing legacy systems

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:

• 3

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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.