Staff, Software Engineer

We are seeking a Staff, Software Engineer with expertise in Backend development (Fullstack is a plus), including strong foundational technologies and patterns used in large-scale systems, especially around membership, loyalty, promotion, pricing, and signage platforms. These platforms are in the process of moving to multi-tenant frameworks and are going to be the single source of truth for multiple international markets.

These platforms provide real-time access to many other transactional systems and applications and are used throughout Walmart’s critical systems to provide an Omni Channel experience to our customers.

About Team: Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.

• Ensure self-accountability for overall engineering and operational excellence of the respective areas of oversight
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities, and deliver awesome products
• Work closely with Distinguished & Principal Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost, and Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines
• Participate in hiring and building teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams
• Work with engineering teams to create high-level and low-level designs and drive designs
• Come up with quality, best practices, and other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them with overall technical and design aspects
• Help implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross cross-functional engineering teams like cloud, platform, analytics, etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community

• 12+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly for multi-tenant, SaaS products
• Proven experience with architectural, design, and testing patterns
• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, run' pipeline using DevOps best practices by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools
• Experience with Kafka and other high volume and low latency messaging methodologies
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions
• Having proficiency in Java/J2EE, Microservices, and Cloud Native Architecture
• Hands-on experience in Microservices, and RESTful web services development in Java SpringBoot, Spring Kafka (or equivalent framework)
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture, and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc.) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Expertise with SQL and NoSQL database usage, design, and optimizations
• Expertise with at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms
• Self-starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for the development and design of at least one cloud-based project
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly
• Proficient in new and emerging technologies
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns, and configuration tools for faster development
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

About Walmart Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world’s leading retailers who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.

We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate on a scale that impacts millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work: We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove the location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

• By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique.

The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock ㅤ

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.