The Home Depot

Principal Software Engineer

The Home Depot

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AngularCloudJavaJavaScriptjQueryLinuxNode.jsNoSQLPythonReactRubyRuby on RailsSpringSQLUnix

About the role

  • Collaborates and pairs with other 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.
  • Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production.
  • 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, or engineering empowerment.
  • Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users.
  • Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered with or without tooling.
  • Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization.
  • Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused many times by a product.
  • Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties.
  • Defines Service Level Objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work.
  • Fields questions from other 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.
  • Proactively monitors production Service Level Objectives for products.
  • Works with vendors and the open-source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products.
  • Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared data.
  • Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing.
  • Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise.
  • Participates in and leads 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.
  • Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriate.

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)
  • 6-8 years of relevant work experience.
  • Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python).
  • Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js.
  • Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database.
  • Mastery of version control systems (preferably Git).
  • Proficient in a front-end technology and framework such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, and JQuery.
  • Proficient in a Linux or Unix based environment.
  • Proficient in a CI/CD toolchain.
  • Proficient in destructive testing methodologies and tools.
  • Proficient in a cloud computing platform and the associated automation patterns they provide.
  • Proficient in production systems design including High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security.
  • Proficient in defensive coding practices and patterns for high-availability.
  • Proficient in modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies.
  • Proficient in successful application of design patterns.
  • Proficient in test-driven development and effective unit test creation.
  • Proficient in a NoSQL database.
  • Proficient in query optimization and troubleshooting.
  • Proficient in effective data modeling within both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience in working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to more junior team members.
  • Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful web services.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Professional development opportunities

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
JavaPythonRuby on RailsSpring MVCNode.jsSQLGitHTMLCSSJavaScript
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipdocumentationproactive monitoringtriagementoringlearninguser experience enhancement