Senior, Software Engineer- Front End

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Web for the Checkout team at Walmart, focusing on building and optimizing modern web applications for the Walmart.com checkout experience. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, responsive, and accessible user interfaces, partnering with cross-functional teams, and optimizing for performance and reliability. While the role mentions exploring GenAI for developer productivity or customer experience, its core function is front-end web development for a critical eCommerce feature.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable web applications that power the Walmart.com checkout experience.
  2. Build intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that deliver a seamless customer experience across devices and browsers.
  3. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate business and customer needs into high-quality technical solutions.
  4. Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions that improve performance, reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
  5. Optimize web applications for speed, usability, observability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Required

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Next.js
  • web application architecture
  • API integration
  • state management
  • performance optimization
  • responsive design
  • scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems
  • testing
  • version control
  • CI/CD
  • code quality standards
  • problem-solving
  • communication

Nice to have

  • 5+ Years of experience on building Web applications using React, NextJS and GraphQL at scale
  • building or supporting checkout, cart, payments, or other transactional eCommerce experiences
  • GenAI, LLM-powered applications, or AI-assisted developer and customer-facing workflows
  • Node.js
  • server-side rendering
  • full-stack web development
  • accessibility (A11y)
  • internationalization (i18n)
  • observability, monitoring, and debugging tools
  • cloud platforms
  • modern deployment environments
  • mentoring engineers
  • leading technical initiatives
  • experimentation
  • A/B testing
  • data-informed product development

What the JD emphasized

  • quality, performance, and reliability are critical