Software Engineer Principal-Architect – Front-End at Home Depot

Title: Software Engineer Principal-Architect – Front-end (REMOTE)
Remote/virtual An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location independent.
Position Purpose:
 The Software Engineer Principal is responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, software development, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our users love. The engineering process is highly collaborative. In addition to pairing, Software Engineer Principals field questions from other product teams and encourage cross-team collaboration. They also play an active role in working with 3rd party vendors as well as the open-source community.
Software Engineer Principals create foundational code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other product-related documentation. They also define service level objectives for products. In addition, Software Engineer Principals may be involved in product configuration, performance tuning, and testing as well as production monitoring.
As a Software Engineer Principal, you will be an extremely knowledgeable Engineer on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior engineers. There is also an expectation that the Software Engineer Principal will demonstrate expertise in modern software design and development.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:
70% – Delivery & Execution
 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 products to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work
20% – Support & Enablement:
 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
10% – Learning:
 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
Nature and Scope:
 Typically reports to the Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.
Environmental Job Requirements:
Environment:
 1. Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Travel:
 Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Standard Minimum Qualifications:
 Must be eighteen years of age or older.
 Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Additional Minimum Qualifications:
 Mastery of an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
 Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Education Required:
 The knowledge, skills, and abilities are typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Years of Relevant Work Experience:
 6 years
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.
Preferred Qualifications:

 
6-8 years of relevant work experience
 
Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
 
Mastery in front-end technologies and frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular
 
Experience using monorepos and building web-components and/or micro-frontends
 
Experience in frontend build systems such as Webpack
 
Experience using browser-driven end-to-end testing using a tool like Selenium or Cypress
 
Experience developing highly engaging front-end software solutions
 
Expertise in developing large enterprise-scale systems using modern web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, Node.js, and cloud technologies
 
Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
 
Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
 
Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
 
Mastery of a version control systems (preferably Git)
 
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
 
Excellent communication skills

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
 Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
 Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
 Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
 Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
 Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
 Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
 Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
 Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
 Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
 Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
 Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
 Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
 Self-Development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
 Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
Pay Rate: 240,000 140,000
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