Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Backend Engineer for Walmart's international transactions team, focusing on microservices architecture using Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. Responsibilities include technical leadership, system design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and improving scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs and microservices. The role also involves code reviews, performance analysis, debt management, and knowledge sharing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership for an agile development team of 6-8 engineers responsible for features and applications used in multiple International Stores.
  2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Management, Market Operations) to gather requirements, create software design specifications and high level estimates.
  3. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs, micro services and components using technologies like Java Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL Database, Cache etc.
  4. Perform design and code reviews, suggest improvements to ensure the highest level of quality and maintainability.
  5. Oversee development lifecycles, Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of relevant work experience with 2-3 years as technical lead for small-mid sized development team.
  • Excellent Problem Solving, Ownership, Communication and leadership skills.
  • Experience with one or more of the following areas: Server Backend Distributed and Parallel Systems, Full Stack Development (front end and backend), Scalable Enterprise Platforms and Applications, Application Security and Incident Management.
  • Deep Knowledge in Software architecture, Micro Services, Java based APIs and systems testing.
  • In-depth understanding of NoSQL database implementations, like Cosmos, MongoDB, etc.
  • Clear understanding of design principles for building large-scale, robust platforms
  • Proven ability to share knowledge via formal mentoring, reviewing code, reviewing design documents, providing technical talks or brown bag sessions.
  • Requires knowledge ofSystem performance, Application Security, monitoring tools, metrics and techniques, Test Automation and Behavior Driven Development.

What the JD emphasized

  • Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role