2027 Summer Internship - Software Engineering

Summary

The Home Depot is offering a summer internship program that gives college students hands-on experience in a corporate environment. The Software Engineer Intern will join a product team, contribute to software design and development, ship production code under senior engineering guidance, and participate in learning and professional development activities.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• Currently pursuing relevant advanced 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
• Preferred GPA 3.0 or above

Qualifications

Nice to Haves

• Currently pursuing relevant advanced 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
• Preferred GPA 3.0 or above

Benefits

• Opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands-on experience in a corporate environment during the 11-week internship program
• Interns participate in networking and development activities
• Learning activities around modern software design and development core practices
• Primarily remote throughout the 11-week program
• Travel expenses will be covered for eligible interns