Senior Developer - Pro Services Systems - Full-time / Part-time

POSITION PURPOSE

We are seeking world-class talent looking to build a career with one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers, operating more than 2,200 store locations in the U.S, Canada and Mexico. Specifically, your role falls within the Pro area of IT, encompassing applications and processes that support how The Home Depot willl 'Find, Know and Grow' our professional customers, such as contractors and remodelers. The Home Depot offers a range of special services to these customers whom make up more than 35% of our business. You will be exposed to the latest technologies running at large, enterprise scale. You will work with business partners to understand our strategic Pro initiatives. 

The Senior Developer on our team will bring knowledge, enthusiasm and curiosity of full-stack development and XP programming practices. This includes being adept in both frontend as well as backend development. You may be more proficient in one than the other, which is ok. What matters is that you have an open mindset toward challenges and that you take a challenge and run with it. You truly want to build a robust and reliable system. You have a passion to refactor when needed and appropriate. Our team pairs with fellow developers virtually 100% of the time. We practice TDD. We deploy to production frequently. We are fast paced, but we keep sustainable work hours. We help each other. There is no drama or ego on our team.

Other Essential items for a Developer at Home Depot

• Pair programming and collaboration comes naturally.
• Code refactoring, performance tuning, and “making it better” is important to you.
• You have a growth mindset. Change is an opportunity.
• Customer service comes naturally and eagerly to you! A customer can be anyone from a team mate to the product manager to one of our business stakeholders. Or, it can be one of our store associates.
• You communicate freely with fellow engineers, the product owner and other interested stakeholders. Communicating in person is preferred over email!
• You own success and take responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions.
• You promote continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies. As a software developer, you strive to find the best technical solution for the given feature request.
• You willingly participate, ask for, and give help.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience
• Cloud-based development with Java 8 and Spring Boot.
• Frontend development with Angular 1.5, Angular materials, JavaScript, HTML
• REST services
• Micro services concepts
• Build, deployment: GitHub, node.js, npm, Gulp, gradle, Jenkins, Concourse, SONAR
• Continuous Integration and Deployment experience
• Test-driven development and automated testing experience including Mocha, Karma, JUnit, e2e and Selenium
• Ability and desire to learn new technologies
• Adept at estimating levels of effort
• Must be able to adapt easily to change
• Must be able to maintain a positive attitude in any situation
• Must be able to use different forms of communication to delivery message to different groups of people
• Skilled at building positive relationships with team members and matrix teams
• Experience with building positive relationships and gaining trust with business partners
• Ability at leading and facilitating meetings
• Retail experience is preferred
• Bachelors is preferred

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES -

• Define, plan and implement solutions on assigned moderately complex projects.
• Take business requirements and develop the total technical design on moderately complex projects and ensure proper usage as part of the design efforts in building a system to be put into production.
• Conduct appropriate test reviews for assigned projects and present to architecture review boards as necessary.
• Promote and follow the established processes, policies, standards and procedures to assure compliance with corporate and regulatory policies and standards.
• Provide technical direction to associate developers, developers and contractors. 

NATURE AND SCOPE -
Typically reports to Manager, Information Technology Responsible for helping others and providing on-the-job training or guidance. 

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Must be eighteen years of age or older. Must pass the Drug Test. Must successfully complete any required training or orientation courses. 

EDUCATION REQUIRED - The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diplomas and/or GED. 

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE - 5

PHYSICAL JOB 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. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES -

• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Ability to communicate issues and recommend solutions in a timely manner to Management.
• Strong decision making abilities.
• Experience developing new application systems for production.