Software Engineer Manager, Supply Chain Sourcing (REMOTE)

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

1d•$140,000 - $240,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and supporting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native solutions for mission-critical Supply Chain and Retail platforms. You will drive modern engineering practices, including AI-enabled development, data-driven operations, and engineering excellence, while partnering with Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative, high-impact technology solutions. Additionally, you will mentor engineering talent, guide technical strategy, and manage key vendor partnerships that support product and platform success.

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)
5 years of work experience

Nice To Haves

7+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technology initiatives
Proven experience leading high-performing engineering organizations delivering cloud-native, highly scalable, secure, and resilient software solutions
Strong expertise designing, developing, and operating Java-based applications, microservices, and REST APIs supporting high-volume, mission-critical systems
Experience leading engineering teams responsible for Order Processing, Commerce, Supply Chain, Store Systems, or Selling platforms
Demonstrated success driving AI-enabled software development practices, engineering automation, and engineering productivity initiatives
Experience implementing Machine Learning-enabled business capabilities within enterprise-scale applications
Strong understanding of Spec-Driven Development, modern software engineering methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile delivery frameworks
Expertise with cloud-native architectures, containerization technologies, and public cloud platforms
Advanced proficiency with relational databases, SQL, performance tuning, and data-driven engineering operations
Strong troubleshooting, system monitoring, observability, and incident management expertise
Proven ability to quickly understand complex business domains, distributed architectures, and enterprise technology ecosystems
Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineers and engineering leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
Experience translating enterprise technology strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and successful execution plans
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage team capacity, prioritize investments, and balance workloads across multiple initiatives
Experience partnering with Product Management and Architecture teams to define technical vision, solution strategy, and long-term platform evolution
Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and evaluating third-party technologies to support engineering and business objectives
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional leaders and drive alignment across technical and business teams

Responsibilities

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
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
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)
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