Staff Software Engineer — Backend Platform Lead

The Home Depot, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team building systems customers and associates love. You will drive design, production deployment, and ongoing reliability while mentoring junior engineers and shaping technical direction across product lines.

As a core member of the product team, you will influence architecture, tool selection, security, performance, and monitoring, while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver high-value solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong backend development with Java, APIs, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing and building APIs from scratch and contributing to service design.
• Experience with Kafka or Pub/Sub for high-volume distributed apps.

Responsibilities

• Delivery and execution of software from development to production with testing.
• Learns and grows through formal and informal development channels.
• Plans and aligns with Product Team; ensures user stories are developer-ready and testable.
• Supports and enables by guiding junior engineers and leading technical discussions.

Skills

Java

APIs

Microservices

Event-driven

Kafka

GCP

Elasticsearch

Databases

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

CI/CD tools

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team building systems customers and associates love. You will drive design, production deployment, and ongoing reliability while mentoring junior engineers and shaping technical direction across product lines.

As a core member of the product team, you will influence architecture, tool selection, security, performance, and monitoring, while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver high-value solutions at scale.