Staff Software Engineer - Mongo & Elastic (Remote)

The Home Depot; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in the United States to lead a team building production applications loved by customers and associates. You will help design, deploy, and support software, and mentor junior engineers while shaping architecture and product decisions.

You will drive delivery, learning, planning, and enabling initiatives in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with product teams and stakeholders to deliver reliable software solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with search tools: Elastic Search, Mongo Atlas, Apache Solr.
• Security vulnerabilities fixing and secure coding practices.
• Java Spring Boot experience.
• Cloud experience, preferably GCP.
• SQL queries against relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Delivery and Execution: develop, test, deploy, and maintain software with measurable value.
• Learns and Grows: pursue growth through formal and informal development.
• Plans and Aligns: communicate with stakeholders; ensure user stories are ready and testable.
• Supports and Enables: mentor juniors and improve team productivity.

Skills

Global perspective

Collaborates

Drives results

Mentors others

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Elastic Search

Mongo Atlas

Apache Solr

Java Spring Boot

Cloud (GCP)

SQL

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. ManagerThis 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

5+ years of relevant work experienceExperience in Search tools (Elastic Search/Mongo Atlas/Apache Solr)Efficient with fixing security vulnerabilitiesExperience in Java Spring bootExperience with cloud (preferably GCP)Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database

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 PerspectiveManages AmbiguityNimble LearningSelf-DevelopmentCollaboratesCultivates InnovationSituational AdaptabilityCommunicates EffectivelyDrives ResultsInterpersonal Savvy

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents

The pay range for this position is between $120,000.00 - $190,000.00