The Home Depot

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Description: • Position purpose: Lead design, build, and evolution of custom warehouse execution systems (WES) to drive automation, efficiency, and resilience in supply chain distribution and fulfillment • Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software that interfaces with robotics, conveyors, and PLCs • Create test suites (functional, destructive, etc.) and enable rapid production deployments • Collaborate in agile processes with product teams to deliver valuable, testable user stories • Plan, align, optimize performance, implement security, and monitor production systems • Mentor and grow junior engineers; lead technical discussions • Travel requirements: No travel required • Physical/working conditions: Mostly indoor, seated work with occasional light lifting; comfortable indoor environment Requirements: • Must be eighteen years of age or older • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States • Minimum 3 years of work experience (stated minimum) • Preferred 2-4 years focused experience architecting/developing software for supply chain/WES/fulfillment center technology • Demonstrated expertise with warehouse robotics, automation technologies, conveyor system integration, and PLCs • Advanced proficiency in Java and object-oriented programming • Experience interfacing software with industrial automation hardware, sensors, and control systems • Supply chain/distribution center process understanding and cross-team collaboration experience • Experience with iterative implementation/integration of robotics, conveyor controls, warehouse IoT, and cloud architectures • Front-end competency with HTML, CSS, modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks • Database design/management experience (relational and NoSQL) for real-time operations • Familiarity with CI/CD tools, cloud platforms, and software delivery automation • Practical experience with security frameworks (authorization/authentication) for users, devices, integrated systems • Proven history of creating/executing/automating unit, functional, destructive, and performance testing • Proficiency with debugging, root cause analysis, and version control (e.g., Git) • Experience working in agile teams and mentoring junior engineers Benefits: • health care benefits • 401K • ESPP • paid time off • success sharing bonus