Software Engineer Manager, Consumer Mobile App (Remote)

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. This role will help shape the future direction of The Home Depot’s customer facing Mobile Application.
The Manager must exhibit the ability to lead engineers to deliver new features, enhance existing ones, and maintain quality & stability of a large retail app. Manager must work with Product and UX (as part of a 3-legged stool) to ensure engineers have what they need to be successful.

Key Responsibilities:

30% Delivery & Execution:

• Collaborates and pairs with 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
• Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• 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, and engineering empowerment
• Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
• Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office

10% Support & Enablement:

• Fields questions from engineers, 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
• Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team

50% People:

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

10% Learning:

• Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Software Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

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:

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery with hands-on experience with development, testing and deployment of large Android & iOS applications (Large retail experience a plus)
• Mastery with hands-on experience with Swift, Swift UI (iOS), Kotlin, Jetpack Compose (Android), Kotlin Multiplatform (at least one platform)
• Mastery with hands-on experience of modern product development processes and pipelines (Github actions a plus)
• Mastery of modern testing methodologies and best practices for Mobile applications
• Mastery in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques encountered by team members in both pre-prod and prod
• Aware of importance of AI and capabie of increasing team’s use of it during the release cycle
• Aware of the importance of metrics to measure team productivity (Jira Velocity to measure Predictabilty, Code Climate Velocity a plus)
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
• Proficiency in training up the experienced engineers on the team to become independent Anchor/Team Lead.
• Aware of importance of managing vendor relationships, both for hiring contractors as well as for managing 3rd-party SDK’s owned by team
• Mastery managing and growing team members in a professional setting: quality team meetings and 1:1’s
• Experience with translating team’s roadmap to efficient execution
• Mastery balancing team workload against product roadmap
• Skilled in writing queries against a database
• Skilled in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
• Knowledgeable of a modern web applications utilizing technologies such as ReactJS and Node.js

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:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• 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
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations

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