The Home Depot

The Home Depot

Senior Principal Software Engineer - Generative AI & Mobile Platforms (Remote)

TEXAS - VIRTUAL - TX01, United States of America · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$280kDetected 5 hours ago
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About the role

  • Position Purpose: As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will serve as the chief technical architect and visionary leader for our Mobile App Renovation Strategy (MARS).
  • You will define the future of our high-performance, modular, and intelligent mobile ecosystem.
  • This role demands a world-class engineer who is deeply technical, possesses an extensive background in native mobile development and server-side orchestration, and can champion innovative AI-first software development.

Responsibilities

  • 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing
  • Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio
  • Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption
  • Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
  • Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent
  • Drives thought leadership and innovation within a given portfolio
  • 50% Delivery and Execution - Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements
  • 25% Support and Enablement - Point of escalation for high-priority issues and outages as they arise; Fields questions from project, product, and support teams; Helps solve technology disputes across local teams; Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software products; Evangelizes successful usage of tooling and technology with local teams
  • You will report directly to senior technology leadership and lead cross-functional feature and platform teams to build our next-generation architecture.
  • Leads portfolio level Principal meetings to maintain alignment, consistency and knowledge sharing; Creates and architects foundational code elements that can be reused across a portfolio; Develops POCs with new technologies and paves the way for portfolio adoption; Tracks and monitors efficient usage of cloud resources and drives cost reduction opportunities and enhancements

Requirements

  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
  • Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
  • Experience with common business processes used in the retail industry
  • Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
  • 7 years of relevant work experience
  • The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years leading architecture in a Principal or Senior Principal capacity for a major consumer-facing mobile application.
  • 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.
  • Transformation Track Record: Proven track record of executing a major technology renovation or modernization strategy (preferably containing SDUI, KMP, and GraphQL BFF elements).
  • Distributed Systems Mastery: Expert knowledge of microservices, server-side GraphQL patterns, and high-performance, multi-layered JVM in-memory caching.
  • AI Expertise: Practical, hands-on experience using GenAI APIs, LLM prompt engineering, and code-generation tools/agents to accelerate development.

Skills

  • Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP): Architecting shared business logic layers.
  • Server-Driven UI (SDUI): Designing extensible layout engines to dynamicize screen rendering.
  • Native Platforms: Proficient in Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and iOS (Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI).
  • GraphQL & Federation: GraphQL (Netflix DGS) and GraphQL Federation layers.
  • Automated unit and integration testing using JUnit 5, XCTest, MockK, Espresso, and XCUITest.
  • Visual regression testing with Paparazzi and Shot.
  • Mobile-specific delivery pipelines including Bitrise, Fastlane, TestFlight, and Firebase App Distribution.
  • Automated security practices including Static (SAST) and Dynamic (DAST) Application Security Testing.
  • Authoring & Personalization
  • Contentful (CMS), Adobe Target, and centralized remote configuration.
  • Minimum Education:
  • Preferred Education:

Compensation

  • Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback

Benefits

  • Drives Vision and Purpose
  • Nimble Learning

Company info

  • We are seeking a visionary leader who will not only build the platform but will also aggressively drive AI-first software development.

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