SOFTWARE ENGINEER MANAGER - Workforce Management at Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
$140,000–$240,000from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-heavy engineering management role where roughly half the time goes toward mentoring, developing, and retaining a software engineering team. The remainder is split between hands-on technical delivery — writing code, automating infrastructure, evaluating new tools, and supporting vendor integrations — and fielding escalations from product and support teams. Suits an experienced engineer with prior leadership exposure and a background in object-oriented and scripting languages.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title is 'Software Engineer Manager' and 50% of the role is explicitly people management (hiring, coaching, reviews, talent development), making 11-3021 the primary classification. However, 30% of the role is hands-on delivery — writing code/scripts, infrastructure automation, dashboards — so 15-1252 is a meaningful runner-up.
Java is listed under Minimum Qualifications with firm language ('Mastery of'), making it a hard gate. All other named technologies (Python, Ruby on Rails/Spring MVC/Node.js, SQL) appear under Preferred Qualifications.
The minimum degree requirement states a bachelor's degree 'or equivalent degree,' which is treated as equivalent experience being accepted, so no formal degree is hard-required.
The posting includes a humorous/erroneous line about '33 pushups' under Preferred Qualifications — this is not a genuine skill requirement and was omitted.
The $140,000–$240,000 compensation range is stated without an explicit 'per year' label, but the figures are consistent with an annual salary range for this level of role; no period was explicitly stated in the posting text, so this is flagged for awareness.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.