2027 Summer Internship - Software Engineering

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

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 17 - July 30, 2027, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Pro, Home 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.

What makes a Great Intern

• Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• Manages Ambiguity: Intern effectively navigates and thrives in uncertain situations while using sound judgment to make decisions without having the full picture. Is able to move work forward without all the details
• Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group’s efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others
• Nimble Learning: Intern actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
• Communication: Intern develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audience
• Customer Focus: Intern builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
• Drives Results: Evaluates information to make logical decisions and achieve results despite potential challenges or setbacks.

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.

Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include

• Planning & Analysis:
• Uses critical thinking to approach problems and create solutions
• Collaborates with senior leaders on assignments
• Delivery & Support:
• 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
• Learning:
• 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 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

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

Location

Remote Interns will be primarily remote throughout the 11-week program but may be required to travel to our Atlanta corporate office (Store Support Center) for up to 3 weeks during the program. Travel expenses will be covered for eligible interns.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $24.00 - $27.00