Senior Software Engineer at Home Depot / THD (Austin, TX)

POSITION PURPOSE:

The Sr. Software Engineer 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. Sr. Software Engineers are expected to pair on a daily basis as they work through user stories and support products as they evolve. In addition, Sr. Software Engineers may be involved in product configuration, performance tuning and testing as well as production monitoring. 

• As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be able to operate independently, though typically will work as part of a team with varying skillsets to create, support, and deploy production applications.
  
  

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITES AND 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 
• Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable 
• 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 
• Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs 
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively 

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 
• Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing 

10% - Learning: 

• Participates in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice) 
• Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
  
  

NATURE AND SCOPE:
Typically reports to the Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager.

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

Environment: 

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.

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

Additional Minimum Qualifications:
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States 
Experience in an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)

Education Required:
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.

Years of Relevant Work Experience: 4 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:

• 4-6 years of relevant work experience 
• Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Java 8)
• Experience in a modern web application framework such as Java, Javascript, Node.js, C#
• Experience in a front-end technology and framework such as JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS
• Experience in a Linux or Unix based environment 
• Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain 
• Experience Building API’s in the cloud
• Test Driven Development Experience
• Exposure to destructive testing methodologies and tools 
• Exposure to a cloud computing platform and the associated automation patterns they provide 
• Exposure to REST and effective web service design
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm 
• 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

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