Front End Web Software Engineers

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

10d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Emerging Tech team, you’ll build the web foundation for Project Sparky, an AI powered assistant that helps customers manage everyday shopping through intelligent, context aware interactions. In this role, you’ll design and scale high performance frontend platforms and shared web experiences that integrate with generative and agentic AI, partnering with backend, AI/ML, and product teams to bring next generation conversational shopping to life for millions of customers.

About Emerging Tech: Our Emerging Tech team drives Walmart’s AI transformation by building intelligent systems that influence how millions shop every day across our global retail ecosystem. We develop stateoftheart generative and conversational AI that powers more proactive, connected, and personalized experiences. At this scale, every innovation you create not only reaches millions of customers worldwide but also comes to life in the very communities where you live, work, and shop.

Software Engineering – Frontend team responsibilities:
Build scalable, high-performance web experiences and frontend platforms that millions of customers rely on.
Design reusable components and shared UI systems that help teams move faster and deliver consistent experiences.
Own decisions around frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, and quality standards.
Collaborate with backend, UX, and product partners to translate customer and business needs into intuitive, polished interfaces.
Maintain high engineering quality through thoughtful testing, reliable CI/CD practices, and constructive code reviews.
Mentor engineers and help raise the bar for frontend best practices across the organization.
Stay current with evolving frontend technologies to keep our platforms modern, resilient, and forward looking

Requirements

• Principal / Distinguished Engineers
• You shape the vision for Walmart’s frontend ecosystem.
• 10–15+ years of frontend or web engineering experience.
• Deep expertise with modern frameworks (React, TypeScript) and largescale frontend architecture.
• Experience designing and scaling web platforms used by large, diverse user bases.
• Proven leadership in performance, accessibility, coding standards, and system level decision making.
• Staff Engineers
• You lead through technical excellence and collaboration.
• 7–10+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Ownership of major frontend surfaces or platform level capabilities.
• Strong instincts for system design and partnership with backend and cross functional teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 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.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, high-performance web experiences and frontend platforms that millions of customers rely on.
• Design reusable components and shared UI systems that help teams move faster and deliver consistent experiences.
• Own decisions around frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with backend, UX, and product partners to translate customer and business needs into intuitive, polished interfaces.
• Maintain high engineering quality through thoughtful testing, reliable CI/CD practices, and constructive code reviews.
• Mentor engineers and help raise the bar for frontend best practices across the organization.
• Stay current with evolving frontend technologies to keep our platforms modern, resilient, and forward looking

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.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees