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

Hiring organization: [The Home Depot](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/the-home-depot)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/90affd80-771b-4f00-8a05-e569f314d082

Listed on The Home Depot's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 170000 – 280000 USD per year

## Summary

A world-class engineering leader architect will design and build Home Depot's next-generation mobile platform while championing AI-first development practices. The role suits experienced principal engineers comfortable bridging native mobile, backend systems, and generative AI, with appetite for strategic influence across large engineering teams.

_Our summary, not The Home Depot's wording._

## Skills named

Apple iOS, Contentful, Espresso, GraphQL, Java, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Microservices, New Relic, Prometheus, REST APIs, Spring Boot, Swift, SwiftUI, XCTest

## Required

- 18 years or older and legally permitted to work in the United States
- Expertise in at least two technologies used by THD IT
- Experience with common retail business processes
- Experience in Agile/Lean development environments
- 7 years of relevant software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a field related to the job

## Nice to have

- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years leading architecture at Principal or Senior Principal level for major consumer-facing mobile applications
- Proven track record executing a major technology renovation or modernization strategy with SDUI, KMP, and GraphQL BFF elements
- Expert knowledge of microservices, server-side GraphQL patterns, and high-performance multi-layered JVM in-memory caching
- Practical hands-on experience with GenAI APIs, LLM prompt engineering, and code-generation tools
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills with history of writing technical white papers and presenting to executive leadership
- Track record of driving technical alignment across large engineering organizations of 50+ engineers

Apply on The Home Depot's site: https://homedepot.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CareerDepot/job/Software-Engineer-Senior-Principal--Remote-_Req186005-1