Position Purpose:

This Mobile team is responsible for rewriting the Home Depot mobile app from the ground up, and we need a technical leader to help drive it. This team owns the customer shopping experience end to end: native app, BFF layer, and the SDUI systems that power it. We are deprecating WebViews in favor of full native implementations, and we are actively rethinking how software gets built, using AI to remove toil from engineering work and ship more customer value, faster. The Staff Software Engineer is the technical anchor for the team, partnering with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and Principal Engineer to set architecture direction across application modularization, component interactions, API contracts, and integration patterns. This person owns hard technical calls on complex initiatives and balances speed with long-term performance, maintainability, and reliability.

In this role you will:

• Lead architecture for a from-scratch native app rewrite, replacing legacy WebView-based screens with full native experiences.
• Design and evolve SDUI, BFF, KMP and front end layers that give the app flexibility without sacrificing native performance.
• Bring AI into the daily engineering workflow (Claude Code and a growing set of internal tools built specifically for our stack) to speed up delivery and cut toil, not just talk about it.
• Set the technical bar: lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers at every level, and raise the standard for code quality across the team.
• Partner directly with Product, UX, Backend, and SRE to turn ambiguous problems into scalable, shippable 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 experience in mobile development
• Native experience – Hands-on native mobile expertise (iOS and/or Android), not just cross-platform tooling. You know the platform internals, not only the frameworks on top.
• Architecture – Track record leading technical direction on complex, cross-team initiatives: architecture design, modernization, refactors at scale.
• SDUI / BFF – Real experience building or operating server-driven UI and backend-for-frontend layers in production.
• Performance – Genuine care about performance as a customer experience problem, not a checkbox. You measure before you optimize.
• AI-forward engineering – Comfortable using AI tools (Claude Code and similar) as part of your daily workflow, and excited to help the team build internal tooling that does the same.
• Influence – Able to drive alignment and technical decisions across teams without formal authority.
• Communication – Can explain a hard technical tradeoff to an engineer and to a non-technical stakeholder equally well.

• 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