Pay Range: $110,000 - $135,000

At The Home Depot Canada, we want you to feel valued and supported. The pay range you see represents base salary only. In addition, your total rewards may include: semi-annual bonuses tied to business performance; Deferred Profit-Sharing Program to assist with retirement savings; comprehensive paid benefits; a 15% discount on Home Depot stock purchases; and merit-based salary increases. We are committed to recognizing your efforts and supporting your growth with us.

Are you someone who thrives on helping others succeed, enjoys making an impact, and takes pride in guiding customers to the right solutions for their projects? If you’re also naturally curious and eager to keep learning, consider starting or growing your career with us at The Home Depot.

Position Overview: The Lead Software Developer is responsible for the full scope of activities required within the software development life cycle, including over seeing the oversight and successful delivery of software solutions. You will work collaboratively with Architects to make high-level design choices, dictate technical standards, and proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture. The Lead Software Developer will provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers and help them in developing modules and solutions. You will work closely with other Lead Developers, Architects,Software developers, Business Analysts, and Quality Analysts amongst others in a highly collaborative environment where change is constant.

Key Responsibilities:

Software Development Life Cycle:

- Analyze user requirements to define business objectives and envision system features and functionality




- Develop well-designed, maintainable, testable, clean and effective code which is optimized and scalable, while conducting software analysis, debugging, and comprehensive testing activities
- Review, test, and debug team members' code to ensure that best practices are followed and to maintain high-quality code standards across the team
- Build solutions using Home Depot preferred databases ensuring their stability, reliability, and performance
- Ensure application achieves the performance, quality, and responsiveness as per the defined SLOs
- Ensure that the development team follows best practices in coding, testing, and documentation
- Lead efforts for code reviews and ensure the overall quality of the codebase
- Provide guidance and oversight by ensuring that code, configurations, and technical issues or solutions are thoroughly documented to support future reference and auditing needs
- Take a proactive role in maintaining high standards for documentation to streamline development processes and knowledge sharing across the team

Collaboration & Communication:

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, and ensure solutions meet requirements
- Serve as the key point of contact for project managers, business analysts,



and other departments to ensure the development aligns with the broader business goals

Problem Solving & Technical Decision-Making:

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Make critical technical decisions related to the development process, tools, and technologies used for building and maintaining SAP solutions or other software applications

Team Leadership & Mentorship:

- Provide technical direction and guidance to the development team, guiding them in day-to-day activities, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring the timely delivery of development milestones
- Provide mentorship to developers on technical skills, career development, and best practices
- Organize knowledge-sharing sessions

Architecture Oversight

- Work closely with architects and senior leaders to define the technical architecture and ensure that the project is aligned with business objectives
- Make high-level design choices and dictate technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve system architecture, scalability, and performance, ensuring the application can grow to meet the needs our customers and associates.

Continuous Improvement:

- Advocate for continuous improvement in the development process, tooling, and techniques used by the team
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Project & Risk Management:

- Oversee the progress of projects, ensuring that developers are on track and deadlines are met
- Handle resource allo

📌 LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (Toronto)
🏢 The Home Depot
📍 Toronto