Software Engineer Manager - Mobile Apps (Remote)

The Home Depot

1d•Remote

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
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.

Nice To Haves

5-7 years of relevant work experience
Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams
Experience managing vendor relationships
Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

Responsibilities

Delivery & Execution: Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
Support & Enablement: Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
Provides application support for software running in production
Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
People: Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
Learning: Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems