Staff Software Engineer

Home Depot; Georgia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team building scalable backend systems. You will influence design, drive production-grade software, and mentor engineers while shaping product direction and platform choices.

This role emphasizes ownership, reliability, and leadership within a vendor-agnostic tech stack. Join a dynamic product team focused on delivering high-value customer and associate experiences with modern Java APIs and event-driven architectures in a large-scale

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 3-5 years of relevant software engineering experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Delivery and execution: develop, test, deploy, and maintain software with measurable value.
• Learns and grows: seeks growth via formal and informal development channels.
• Plans and aligns: improves organizational success, communicates clearly to audiences, supports agile processes.
• Supports and enables: answers questions, mentors junior engineers, identifies team gaps and proposes improvements.

Skills

Java

APIs

Microservices

Event-driven

Kafka

Pub/Sub

GCP

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

High-volume systems

Tools

GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

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

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 software engineering experience, preferably within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Strong backend development experience with Java, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building APIs from scratch, including contributing to overall application and service design.
• Experience with Kafka and/or Pub/Sub technologies to support high-volume, distributed applications.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and large-scale data storage, search, or retrieval solutions.
• Experience designing and supporting high-volume backend systems and databases, ideally processing millions of transactions or records daily.
• Experience supporting transactional or financial data platforms, such as point-of-sale, online/e-commerce, self-checkout, payment, receipt, or post-sale transaction systems.
• Ability to design scalable systems for high availability, resiliency, performance, efficiency, disaster recovery, and security.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple technical initiatives simultaneously, including coordinating the work of small groups of engineers and taking ownership of module or solution delivery.
• Ability to provide technical direction, remove obstacles, monitor delivery, and ensure engineers supporting an initiative are meeting commitments.
• Strong technical ownership and project leadership, with the ability to remain hands-on while driving projects from design through production delivery.
• Ability to serve as a technical representative for initiatives and the broader department, partnering effectively across engineering, product, and other stakeholder teams.
• Strong system design and problem-solving skills, includ