Staff Software Engineer - Lead Systems & Scale

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team of engineers in building and maintaining production applications that customers and associates rely on. You will drive architectural decisions, oversee API and backend design, and work across product, security, and reliability teams.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and hands-on coding while delivering scalable enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and building APIs from scratch.
• Strong backend development with Java, microservices and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and execution of software with production readiness.
• Foster learning and growth of engineers through mentoring.
• Plan and align with Product Team to ensure user stories are clear and testable.
• Support and guide teams, removing obstacles and improving throughput.

Skills

Java

APIs

Microservices

Event-driven

Kafka

Pub/Sub

GCP

BigQuery

Elasticsearch

NoSQL

Relational DBs

CI/CD

Data modeling

Debugging

Version control

Roadmaps

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a team of engineers in building and maintaining production applications that customers and associates rely on. You will drive architectural decisions, oversee API and backend design, and work across product, security, and reliability teams.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and hands-on coding while delivering scalable enterprise solutions.