Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Python/Java

The Home Depot

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $120,000 - $190,000 per year

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About the role

Lead a team of engineers building and designing a product for customers and associates
Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software; develops test suites to enable success and rapid deployment to production
Assist in product and tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring
Contribute to foundational code elements, architectural diagrams and product-related documentation
Build and grow skillsets of junior Engineers; provide guidance on modern software development frameworks and lead technical discussions
Work with Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready; collaborate in agile processes
Create new and better ways for the organization to be successful; deliver communications for diverse audiences
Field questions from product and engineering teams; note gaps on team and suggest productivity improvements
Typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
No travel required
Located in a comfortable indoor area

Must be eighteen years of age or older
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
5-8 years of relevant work experience (Preferred)
LLM-Focused Backend Developer
Extensive experience with Python, and Scalable API development using FastAPI, Tornado
Machine Learning & Generative AI: Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG Architecture, and Prompt Engineering is essential
Familiarity with LangSmith, LangGraph, or other agentic framework technologies
Vector Stores: Experience with technologies like Pinecone, Google Vector Store, Vespa, or AstraDB
NoSQL: Proficiency with BigTable, Cassandra, or HBase
Big Data Platforms: Experience with BigQuery, Apache Spark, and Apache Beam
Orchestration Tools: Familiarity with Google Cloud Composer or Apache Airflow
Search retrieval and ranking experience (Search engine like Elastic or Solr or Lucene based)
ML Ops experience: ML for retrieval and ranking like model training and deployment pipeline experience using Python and GCP tools like Vertex AI, Dataflow/Data proc jobs
Feature engineering for batch and runtime model inferences
General understanding of retrieval systems, concepts, challenges
Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field
Minimum Years of Work Experience: 3