Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...What you'll do...

• About Team:

  As part of the Conversational AI team, we are building completely new capabilities to allow our customers to shop by seamlessly interacting with their connected devices using text and spoken language. This team is part of the Emerging tech organization and will build new experiences both in-house and in collaboration with strategic partners. As part of this team, you will get to work on industry leading solutions and be at the forefront of this emerging platform.

• What You'll Do:

    Drive architecture, design, development, operation and documentation of large-scale services.

•    Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.

•    Provide, guidance and mentorship to  to a group of highly skilled and  motivated engineers.

•    Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community. 

•    Engage with Engineers, Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.

•    Drive Proof-of-Concepts and Proof-of-Technology evaluations.

•    Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.

•    Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.

•    Publish and update technical architecture and user/process documentation

•    You will need to exhibit strong technical leadership and communication skills to collaborate with business, product, engineering & management across different geographic locations.

•    Guide and mentor other team members to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams.

•    Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross- functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements); 

•    Writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; collaborating with the project team and cross-functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on- time delivery and hand-offs;

•    Seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.

• What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science or related technical field.

• years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development in product based companies or R&D divisions.

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in developing services in Java/Spring Boot

• 5+ years of experience designing, building large distributed systems for high availability and scale

• 5+ years of experience of developing services using managed servicing public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP or AWS

• 5+ years of experience and fluency with relational / no-sql (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) databases

• 5+ year of experience with Rest API, Message Brokers like Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, Caches such as Redis or memcached, Elastic Search, Spark and HDFS

• Proven understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.

• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.

• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short term implications of design decisions.

• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt

• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

• Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects

• Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills

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 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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, 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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we're able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

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, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related areaPrimary Location...BLOCK- 1, PRESTIGE TECH PACIFIC PARK, SY NO. 38/1, OUTER RING ROAD KADUBEESANAHALLI, , India

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