Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Senior Software Engineer role on Walmart's Marketing Technology Engineering Team, focusing on building scalable APIs, services, and data pipelines for personalized marketing communications. The team develops a multi-tenant platform for AI-driven content systems with enterprise governance, metadata-first services, and continuous feedback loops for AI model quality. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring security and performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyze and classify requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical needs.
  2. Design scalable software solutions, applying architecture principles and design patterns.
  3. Develop, test, and maintain high-quality, secure, and maintainable code using appropriate languages and frameworks.
  4. Conduct code reviews and implement telemetry features to monitor application performance.
  5. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify risks and recommend corrective actions during development.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5-7 years or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3-5 years of experience building scalable ecommerce applications
  • Proven expertise in software architecture, scalable distributed systems, and design patterns.
  • Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming and coding standards across multiple languages such as JavaScript and Python.
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automation scripting, and telemetry implementation.
  • Ability to analyze and translate business requirements into detailed technical designs and user stories.
  • Skilled in debugging, defect management, and root cause analysis to ensure high-quality deliverables.
  • Knowledge of secure coding practices and software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving skills and technical acumen in iterative development environments.

Nice to have

  • Designed, built, and maintained APIs, services of highly scalable platforms.
  • Designed and built video streaming applications, with real time video analytics.
  • Worked extensively with Kafka or other high volume-low latency messaging infrastructure and built real time and batch data driven applications
  • Extensive knowledge of open-source libraries, design patterns and micro-service architecture. Familiarity with CI/CD and unit testing
  • Experience in production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)
  • Knowledge and/or experience in Data mining, Machine Learning, Image and Video Processing