Staff Software Engineer, Delivery (REMOTE)

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Delivery to lead a product-aligned engineering team. This role involves designing, building, and delivering scalable software solutions while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.

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; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
• Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems
• 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

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• 3 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications in complex environments
• Strong full-stack development experience, with deeper expertise in modern front-end technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, HTML, CSS) and backend development using Java, Spring, and RESTful services
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications using Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions, automated testing, and release automation
• Proven experience implementing comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, functional, and performance testing, with a focus on test automation
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability practices to ensure production stability, performance, and rapid incident response
• Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, performance optimization, and scalability considerations
• Experience implementing security best practices for authentication, authorization, and service-to-service communication
• Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve complex issues using modern troubleshooting and root-cause analysis techniques
• Experience collaborating in large, shared codebases using modern version control systems
• Proven experience designing systems that meet enterprise requirements for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, efficiency, and security
• Exposure to contributing to technical roadmaps, including effort estimation, refactoring initiatives, and modernization of legacy systems
• Experience leveraging or evaluating AI-enabled solutions to improve engineering efficiency, delivery velocity, or system capabilities
• Ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority
• 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
• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications in complex environments