Staff, Software Engineer

About Team:

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

You will be part of a global engineering team that caters to learning needs for all associates across the globe at Walmart. The team leverages/implements standard modules as well as builds custom developments that integrate with several systems meant for associate learning related solutions. The solutions developed could potentially enable millions of users achieve efficiency in their day to day processes and thus enable massive cost savings for Walmart.

Your Responsibility shall include:

• 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. 
• 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. 
• Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality and efficiency.
• Build, leverage, and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
• Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.
• Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and inclusivity within the team.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of strong programming skills in Java/Python for building services, and SQL/No-SQL.
• 5+ years experience in software design and programming languages, such as Java, Python (using Flask/FastAPI), and JavaScript.
• 5+ years experience with software build management tools like Maven, Gradle, or similar.
• 5+ years experience with software testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies.
• 4+ years experience in cloud technologies such as Azure or GCP.
• 3+ years experience in HTML, CSS, and frontend/web development.
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.
• Experience and/or interest in building tooling that makes your engineering colleagues successful
• Experience and/or interest in architecture, developer tooling, and agile and lean software development
• Adept in event driven architecture patterns
• Strong communication skills are necessary to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A strategic mindset to align technical initiatives with business goals is essential.

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 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:
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 styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
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 responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.