Position Purpose:

This team is responsible for delivering engaging, customer-centric experiences across Home Depot mobile shopping app. The Staff Software Engineer serves as the technical leader for the team, partnering closely with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and Principal Engineer to design, deliver, and evolve scalable mobile applications. This role owns the technical architecture within the team's product domain, including application modularization, component interactions, API contracts, and integration patterns. The Staff Software Engineer drives technical decisions for complex initiatives while balancing product delivery with long-term maintainability, performance, and reliability.
The Staff Software Engineer leads architecture discussions, mentors engineers across experience levels, establishes engineering best practices, and collaborates with platform teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances
• 10% Learns and Grows - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems
• 20% Plans and Aligns - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
• 20% Supports and Enables - Fields questions from product and engineering teams; Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions; Notes gaps on the team and provides suggestions for changes to make the team more productive

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position typically has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

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.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, customer-facing mobile applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the technical direction of complex, cross-team initiatives, including architecture design, technical strategy, legacy modernization, and system refactoring.
• Experience navigating ambiguous technical challenges, evaluating tradeoffs, identifying risks, and driving scalable, maintainable solutions from concept through production.
• Deep expertise in native mobile application development, with strong knowledge of application architecture, design patterns, performance optimization, networking, security, and engineering best practices.
• Experience with modern cross-platform technologies and architectures, such as React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Flutter, and WebView-based solutions.
• Experience designing, consuming, or influencing RESTful or GraphQL APIs, with a solid understanding of client-server architecture and backend integration.
• Strong understanding of software quality and developer productivity practices, including CI/CD, automated testing (unit, integration, and UI testing), release management, observability, and operational excellence.
• Passion for improving engineering velocity through automation, reusable frameworks, tooling, and continuous process improvement.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with Product, UX, Backend, QA, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end customer experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions beyond direct ownership, build alignment across organizations, and drive engineering initiatives without formal authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers, developing technical leaders, and raising the engineering bar through architecture reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Passion for fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and pragmatic decision-making.
  
  Minimum Education:
• 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.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy