With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
As a Staff Software Engineer in Supply Chain, you will play a critical role in developing software that empowers warehouse associates with visibility into warehouse management and execution systems, including conveyor routing, sortation, order streaming, goods-to-person solutions, and task and labor optimization.
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining products that warehouse associates rely on every day. You’ll work alongside a dynamic group of engineers at all experience levels, fostering collaboration, technical growth, and leadership development while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. Beyond development, you will also guide decisions around product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will contribute to reusable foundational code, architectural diagrams, and other product documentation. You’ll serve as a core member of a balanced team, mentoring junior engineers, and helping them expand both their technical expertise and leadership skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- 50% Delivery and Execution - 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
- 10% Learns and Grows - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems
- 20% Plans and Aligns - 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
- 20% Supports and Enables - 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
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
- This position typically has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3–5 years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Experience with AI-enabled software development practices and the AI product development lifecycle (PDLC), including specification-driven development and modern AI-assisted engineering practices.
- Experience building AI copilots, intelligent automation, skills, or autonomous agents that address business needs, improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency, and reduce dependency on manual processes or engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to build scalable tools, capabilities, and automation that solve business needs and enable greater team efficiency and self-service.
- Strong knowledge of warehousing, logistics, and fulfillment operations, with an understanding of how software solutions and production issues can impact customer orders, inventory, services, and operational performance.
- Experience developing systems supporting warehouse management, sortation, goods-to-person, order streaming/work release, automation, robotics, warehouse execution, dashboards, and reporting.
- Full-stack development experience with technologies such as React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including technologies such as Bigtable, Cassandra, or HBase, and big data platforms such as BigQuery.
- Experience with cloud and edge computing, CI/CD, version control, and modern software design patterns.
- Knowledge of security frameworks and best practices for user and service authentication and authorization.
- Experience designing and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance testing, along with modern debugging and root-cause analysis techniques.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively investigate reported issues, assess impacts to customer orders, inventory, and services, and partner with product management and engineering leadership to prioritize resolution.
- Ability to lead technical design, translate initiatives into epics and actionable development tasks, delegate work effectively, and guide developers through execution.
- Experience providing technical guidance to developers, conducting code reviews, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to own projects end to end, including implementation, testing, deployment, and post-deployment validation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively communicate progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery status to leadership and technical and business stakeholders.
Minimum Education:
- 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.
Preferred Education:
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
Preferred Leadership Experience:
Certifications:
Competencies:
- Global Perspective
- Manages Ambiguity
- Nimble Learning
- Self-Development
- Collaborates
- Cultivates Innovation
- Situational Adaptability
- Communicates Effectively
- Drives Results
- Interpersonal Savvy
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 $120,000.00 - $190,000.00
