Staff Software Engineer, Supply Chain (REMOTE)

The Home Depot • GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

3d • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 3 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience designing, developing, and supporting scalable enterprise applications in a modern cloud environment.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve business problems, enhance user experiences, improve developer productivity, and accelerate software delivery. Experience building AI-powered features, integrating AI services into applications, utilizing AI-assisted development tools, and driving AI adoption across engineering teams is highly preferred.
• Strong front-end development experience, including UI design and development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue, with a focus on delivering intuitive, responsive, and accessible user experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to balance front-end and back-end development responsibilities, with an approximate focus of 30% front-end and 70% back-end development.
• Strong back-end development experience using object-oriented programming languages, preferably Java, including building APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing, developing, and optimizing applications using both relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and security best practices using modern identity and access management frameworks.
• Experience creating and executing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, functional, performance, and automated testing.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with experience in debugging, root cause analysis, monitoring, and resolving complex production issues.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable systems with a focus on performance optimization, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications through refactoring, architecture improvements, cloud migration initiatives, and adoption of modern engineering practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and a strong understanding of modern software design patterns and engineering best practices.
• Exposure to technical roadmap planning, work estimation, architectural decision-making, and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to partner effectively across Product, UX, Architecture, Security, and Engineering teams to deliver innovative business solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior