Home Depot • Austin, TX 78703
Job #2670126561
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About BlackLocus
BlackLocus is building cloud-based analytic tools to optimize and automate retail merchandising decisions such as pricing, assortment, space and fulfillment. By applying machine learning and revenue management techniques, the BlackLocus platform enables intelligent retail software to identify opportunities for competitive advantage. The company was a venture-funded startup, founded by Carnegie Mellon alumni and entrepreneurs with a passion for creative deployment of new technology. Acquired by The Home Depot in December of 2012, we operate with autonomy as a product lab from an office located in downtown Austin, TX.
Job Summary
BlackLocus is seeking creative, thoughtful coders to join our development team. Our people solve interesting, challenging problems while working closely with data scientists and business analysts. We build tools to make business actions simple even from large data sets. Our data mining and machine learning pipeline, as well as our user-facing applications, are built primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript. Our services and tools are entirely cloud-deployed.
Key Responsibilities:
80% Delivery & Execution: Write clean, maintainable, high-quality code; Establish best practices across development projects; Help take new products from prototype to deployment; Solve problems with production systems and automate operations as much as possible
Stay current with advancements in technology and advocate for the appropriate use of those advancements in our own stack; End to end responsibility on projects of increasing complexity
20% Mentoring: Mentor other engineers via design and code review
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
This role reports to the Manager of Engineering BlackLocus.
This role has no direct reports.
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Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Experience writing quality code in any language appropriate to the problem
Experience collaborating with a diverse group of people.
Knowledge in algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
Experience with technical design and can speak to reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs
Experience with persistent data stores and their query languages
Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience and self-education
Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years professional experience with Java, Python or Golang as your preferred language
Experience with the full development lifecycle, from design, to implementation, testing, documentation, release, and maintenance
Familiarity with Unix shell scripting
Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure
Nice to Have:
JavaScript a plus (this role is primarily BE heavy)
Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, gke)
CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions)
Minimum Education:
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Competencies:
Ability to identify and document business requirements
Ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical
Ability to understand existing business processes and assist with efforts to (re-)engineer processes
Strong project management skills, including strong process orientation, ability to work and lead cross functional teams, strategic thinking and creative problem solving skills.
Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to lead multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables
Strong communication skills both written and verbal
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $101,600.00 - $150,000.00
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