[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Delivery @The Home Depot

Role Description

The Staff Software Engineer, Delivery is a technical leader on a product-aligned engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and delivering scalable software solutions that support customer and associate experiences. This role provides hands-on development while influencing architecture, engineering standards, and delivery practices across the team.

The Staff Engineer partners closely with product and UX to deliver full-stack solutions, with a stronger emphasis on front-end experience, supported by backend services built with Java, Spring, and RESTful APIs. This role contributes to shared foundational components, architectural documentation, and technical best practices that enable reuse, consistency, and long-term scalability.

Staff Software Engineers are accountable for engineering excellence across the delivery lifecycle, including cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, test automation, monitoring, and production readiness. They mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability, and developer productivity, including the thoughtful application of AI-driven capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3–5 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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Health care benefits
• 401K
• ESPP
• Paid time off
• Success sharing bonus

Company Description

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For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents: The pay range for this position is between $120,000 - $190,000.