VP of Engineering

Home Depot; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 254,000 - 384,000; Part time

Job summary

Home Depot in Chicago, IL is seeking a VP of Engineering on a part-time basis to advocate for collaboration and then commit to team decisions. The role focuses on ownership and strategic tech decisions within the IL market, with a salary range designed to attract senior leadership talent.

You will lead the integration of Webpack, Express.js, Jest, and tooling to empower the Chicago team, while mentoring other VP-level hires and driving measurable performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven follow-through and shipped results.
• Ownership mindset with ability to make architectural decisions.
• Experience owning technology decisions in an IL market.

Responsibilities

• Pair Webpack and Express.js in a scalable pipeline.
• Reproduce and fix autonomy-driven bugs from the Chicago field reports.
• Build collaboration tooling to accelerate the Chicago team.
• Mentor new VP hires on wiring Express.js.
• Land Jest performance improvements measurable in IL metrics.
• Prepare the Jest stack for migration out of IL before deadline.

Skills

Analytical skills

Execution

Ownership

Tech ownership

Curiosity

Documentation

Tools

Azure

Angular

Ruby

Job description

Home Depot needs a VP of Engineering in IL who can argue passionately about Collaboration, then commit to whatever the team decides. The offer reads simply — part-time, $254,000 - $384,000, 13 years, and a vp role where ownership is not a perk but the point.

Key Responsibilities

• Pair Webpack and Express.js in a pipeline Home Depot can extend without your help later
• Reproduce the autonomy-driven bug from the Chicago field report, then make it impossible again
• Build the Collaboration tooling that makes every other Chicago engineer faster
• Mentor newer vp hires on how Home Depot actually wires Express.js together
• Land Jest performance wins Home Depot can measure in IL retention numbers
• Pull Home Depot's Jest stack out of the IL region before the migration deadline

What You'll Bring

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions
• An appetite for ownership that scales with the stakes
• Comfort owning technology decisions in an IL market
• The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking

Home Depot is less a vendor and more a scrappy-but-steady Chicago, IL workshop where Microsoft Azure and Angular get the attention they deserve. Our Chicago team treats every retro like a chance to quietly upgrade how we operate.

We provide a $254,000 - $384,000 salary, full benefits, and dedicated time each week to learn new Angular and Ruby tools.

Hiring as we speak in Chicago, with daily reviews still underway.