Staff Software Engineer — Lead Backend & Architecture

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

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