Staff, Software Engineer

Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join Walmart Fulfillment Services and Marketplace Engineering team. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, a passion for technology and engineering excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor a large team of engineers. You will play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining our technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability requirements and cost optimization.

About the Team:

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) offers end-to-end fulfillment services for Walmart Marketplace sellers. We uniquely offer wide range of features, scale, quality, cost, and efficiency to sellers to grow their successful business on Walmart.com. As a Staff Software Engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work on end-to-end fulfillment experience at a scale.

This is a collaborative team made up of Engineering, Product, Business and Analytics working on building new products and features in an iterative fashion that caters for the growth of Walmart and its Marketplace sellers. We deliver high performing supply chain solutions like simplify inbound inventory intake, preferred carrier program, faster receiving at consolidation centers, personalized forecast, and allocation etc., are just a few of the features built by this team in collaboration with many other teams.

What You'll Do:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to

• To be a technical lead, design, develop and lead multiple Business or Technology driven projects with small to medium sized teams to support new functionalities and user experiences.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping architectural decisions, championing scalable and efficient solutions to meet present and future needs.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership and mentorship to your teammates, other teams and engineers.
• Guide software engineers to build & deliver secured rest services built using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven build, Cloud migration etc.
• Take ownership, lead and contribute across the technical stack to improve speed of delivery, developer productivity and related goals.
• Drive Availability, Quality, Performance, and Resiliency related goals with your team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, Business and Operational support to grasp the requirements and deliver top-tier software product.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality), performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues, engaging support teams when needed, developing solutions, driving the development of an action plan, performing actions as designated in the plan, and completing online documentation.
• Possess excellent communication skills to be able to communicate with peers and stakeholders.
• Enjoy spending your day writing & reviewing code and also lead design discussions.
• Help put tools, processes, and documentation in place to improve our code quality.

What you'll Bring...

• Atleast 6+ years of extensive software development experience building Complex Architectures, Distributed Systems and Micro-Services.
• Expert level knowledge and understanding of Java Technologies, SQL/NOSQL Databases, Distributed Caching, Event streaming platform like Kafka, Container Technologies.
• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level and a passion for adopting the latest features in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.
• Hands on with BigQuery (Data warehouse), Cloud Bigtable (NoSQL) will be a plus.
• Effectively translating requirements into project parameters while working with agility.
• Helping cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a 'best-in-class' customer experience.
• Encouraging the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

About 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 expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer 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 at scale, impact 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 location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits & Perks:

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 styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

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.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America