Internship Overview:

The Home Depot’s Summer Internship program offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience in a corporate environment. During an 11 – week period from May 13 - July 26, 2024, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Outside Sales & Services, Human Resources, etc. Interns will learn more about our retail business and our corporate offices while having the opportunity to work on a pre-assigned project that impacts the function they are supporting. Additionally, interns participate in networking and development activities that set them up for success as they build their careers.

Description of the Major/Subject Area:

A Software Engineer Intern is responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, software development, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our users will love. As a Software Engineer Intern, you will work under the guidance of a more senior engineer on an existing product team to ship production code.

Qualified applicants may be pursuing a Bachelor of Science/Business Administration with a concentration in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, math, decision sciences, engineering or other business/technology disciplines.

Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include:

• Uses critical thinking to approach problems and create solutions

• Collaborates with senior leaders on assignments

• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions

• Works under the direction of a more senior engineer to build a well-rounded skillset

• Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs

• Creates automation scripts for both infrastructure and test cases

• Participates in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

• Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations

• Reviews and discusses code from more senior engineers to understand best practices and design patterns

• Increases business acumen by learning about other parts of the business

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing relevant degree

• 0-1 years of relevant work experience

• Interest in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team

• Exposure to a web -front-end technology and framework such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Jquery

• Exposure to version control systems (preferably Git)

• Previous experience working in group environments or utilizing paired programming

Description of Roles: (Career paths that utilize this skillset full-time)

At The Home Depot, our associates always have room to move up and explore new opportunities. After the Internship, here are some examples of early career roles for interns:

• Software Engineer