Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to build and operate high-scale distributed systems, focusing on API Gateway evolution, GraphQL gateway development, and enhancing developer portals. The role involves extending a gateway to enable agentic integrations and autonomous workflows within the Marketplace domain, requiring expertise in backend services, GraphQL, and developer-focused platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and evolve high‑scale distributed services that power the Marketplace API Gateway supporting critical seller and partner traffic.
  2. Lead the development of the mGQL (Marketplace GraphQL) gateway, including schema design, routing logic, federation strategy, and performance optimization.
  3. Extend and enhance the MCP (Modal Context Protocol) gateway to enable agentic workflows and context‑aware integrations across Marketplace domain systems.
  4. Own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of backend services, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing reliability.
  5. Implement and drive best practices for resiliency, observability, rate limiting, quotas, latency reduction, SLAs, and fault isolation across gateway platforms.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Rust
  • NodeJS
  • GraphQL
  • distributed systems
  • API Gateway
  • backend services
  • developer platforms
  • React
  • TypeScript

Nice to have

  • Apollo GQL Federation Framework
  • agentic systems
  • autonomous workflows
  • emerging middleware patterns

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic integrations
  • agentic workflows
  • autonomous workflows