Software Engineer, Backend – Distributed Systems

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $50k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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The Home Depot

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1978

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🛒 Retail

💰 Debt Financing on 2007-07

Construction • Logistics • Retail

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, offering a wide range of building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and related services. The company operates both physical stores and an online platform, providing comprehensive solutions for DIY enthusiasts, professional contractors, and homeowners. The Home Depot is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, providing employment opportunities and benefits to a diverse workforce. Additionally, the company places a high emphasis on customer service and associate engagement to maintain its position as a trusted leader in the home improvement industry.

📋 Description

• Assist in developing and designing products for Home Depot customers and associates • Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software • Follow organizational best practices and participate in improvement conversations • Help the team achieve results under challenging circumstances • Learn through successful and failed experiments when tackling new problems • Seek opportunities for growth and challenge through formal and informal development channels • Build partnerships and collaborate with others to meet shared objectives • Collaborate with team members in agile processes • Contribute to product configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring • Report to a Software Engineer Manager or Senior Manager • Manage no direct reports

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • Bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job • Minimum 1 year of work experience • Experience in an object-oriented programming language, preferably Java • Experience with event-driven architectures and message queuing/streaming platforms, specifically Google Cloud Pub/Sub • Experience with NoSQL database systems, particularly Apache Cassandra, in high-throughput environments • Experience querying, analyzing, and working with large datasets using BigQuery or relational databases (SQL) • Hands-on experience building, managing, and maintaining observability, metrics, and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana • Experience or familiarity leveraging modern AI developer tools, such as Claude and LLM-based coding assistants • Experience in microservice-based architecture and cloud computing techniques, with GCP preferred • Experience in CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines • Experience in source code version control, such as Git • Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques • Exposure to security frameworks for user and service authorization and authentication • Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement • No travel required • Opportunities to build and grow technical and leadership skills • Formal and informal development channels • Comfortable indoor working conditions