About the position
We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a large project environment, possessing solid technical leadership abilities along with a strong development background in Java. You will collaborate with our product team, architects, and quality assurance personnel, taking the lead in designing, developing, and enhancing resilient and easy-to-maintain applications. Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our product team, architects, and quality assurance to provide team leadership and design, develop, and enhance a reliable and easy-to-maintain infrastructure.
- Partner and collaborate on product development with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with Walmart code of conduct.
- Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information and engage support teams to assist in the resolution of issues.
- Perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and ensure compliance with Walmart code of conduct.
- Provide technical guidance and continuous mentorship to junior members in the team to ensure compliance with Walmart code of conduct.
Requirements
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in software design, development and automated deployments.
- Hands-on experience building Java-based backend systems and experience of working in cloud based solutions.
- Proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Spark.
- Prior experience in delivering highly scalable large scale data processing Java applications.
- Strong in high and low level system design.
- Experienced in designing data intensive applications in open stack.
- Good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving.
- Experienced in CICD development environments/tools including Git, Maven, Jenkins.
- Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC.
- Experienced in microservices architecture.
- Good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.
- Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.
- Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.
- Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB.
- Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.
- Experience in event based systems like Kafka.
- Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems.
- Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP will be an added advantage.
- An understanding of Mainframe databases will be an added advantage.
Nice-to-haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area.
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards.
- Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.
