Software Engineer Manager - Direct Fulfillment
The Home Depot
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req154918
Category – Technology
Apply By – 10/17/2025
Bonus Eligible
401(k) Company Matching
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Pay Range
The pay range for this position is between $140,000.00 – $240,000.00.
Starting wage may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. The Home Depot offers additional competitive and non-financial benefits, which may include a performance-based bonus program or a profit sharing program depending on position.
Position Purpose:
As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of functional configuration and software engineers that develops & manages software specifically for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Warehouse Execution Systems (WES). This includes configuring Manhattan WMS, writing custom code to extend WMS, logic and execution related to automation including order streaming, goods-to-person, and task and labor optimization, ensuring effective integration between the two systems to enhance operational efficiency. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic warehouse automation vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.
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
- Experience leveraging Agentic AI approaches to build autonomous workflows that improve warehouse efficiency, such as dynamic task allocation, order streaming, routing, and labor optimization.
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.
- Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience
- Has a deep understanding of warehousing and logistics and understands how their software impacts the performance and processes of the warehouse operations team.
- Deep experience in configuring Manhattan Associates WMOS (version 2019) and LMS.
- Experience in Warehouse Management Systems, leading teams to complete greenfield installations, upgrades, and enhancements for mechanized distribution centers.
- Experience developing custom software to extend WMS, sortation systems, merge systems, goods to person systems, order streaming/work release systems, and warehouse execution systems
- Experience applying Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel) to orchestrate multi-step, autonomous workflows.
- Knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning algorithms, or autonomous agents for optimization in dynamic environments.
- Experience leading teams building AI copilots or autonomous task agents that improve engineering productivity or operational throughput.
- Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
- Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
- Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
- Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
- Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
- Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
- Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
- Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
- Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
- Experience balancing workloads across teams
- Experience managing vendor relationships
- Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
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
- AI & Automation Mindset: Skilled at identifying opportunities to apply autonomous AI agents for process optimization, system reliability, and workforce enablement.
Apply By:
10/17/2025
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req154918
Category – Technology
Apply By – 10/17/2025
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of functional configuration and software engineers that develops & manages software specifically for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Warehouse Execution Systems (WES). This includes configuring Manhattan WMS, writing custom code to extend WMS, logic and execution related to automation including order streaming, goods-to-person, and task and labor optimization, ensuring effective integration between the two systems to enhance operational efficiency. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent. In addition, you will be given the chance to work with our most strategic warehouse automation vendors to ensure that 3rd party tools and applications are readily available to all product teams that are interested in using them.
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
- Experience leveraging Agentic AI approaches to build autonomous workflows that improve warehouse efficiency, such as dynamic task allocation, order streaming, routing, and labor optimization.
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.
- Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience
- Has a deep understanding of warehousing and logistics and understands how their software impacts the performance and processes of the warehouse operations team.
- Deep experience in configuring Manhattan Associates WMOS (version 2019) and LMS.
- Experience in Warehouse Management Systems, leading teams to complete greenfield installations, upgrades, and enhancements for mechanized distribution centers.
- Experience developing custom software to extend WMS, sortation systems, merge systems, goods to person systems, order streaming/work release systems, and warehouse execution systems
- Experience applying Agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel) to orchestrate multi-step, autonomous workflows.
- Knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning algorithms, or autonomous agents for optimization in dynamic environments.
- Experience leading teams building AI copilots or autonomous task agents that improve engineering productivity or operational throughput.
- Mastery of a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
- Mastery of a modern web application framework such as Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, and Node.js
- Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
- Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
- Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
- Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
- Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
- Experience in guiding more junior team members through Software Engineering fundamentals in a professional setting
- Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
- Experience balancing workloads across teams
- Experience managing vendor relationships
- Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution
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
- AI & Automation Mindset: Skilled at identifying opportunities to apply autonomous AI agents for process optimization, system reliability, and workforce enablement.
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Work From Home – Location Specific – An associate in this role primarily works from home but is assigned a THD location and is periodically required to report to their in-office location. Associates must live within the same state and within a commutable distance of their assigned THD location.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Healthcare Options
Profit-Sharing Bonuses
Tuition Reimbursement
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