Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Team: The Acquisition and Discovery Engineering team at Walmart provides a seamless and delightful shopping experience to millions of shoppers worldwide. As a software engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work on top of the funnel shopping experience – Homepage, Content Pages for SEO and SEM, Search & Browse experiences, Deals and Item pages across mobile and web platforms.
This collaborative team made up of Engineering, UX, Product Management, Business and Analytics is rapidly iterating on new products and site features at scale. We deliver high performing solutions on our next generation front-end platform. Virtual Try-On, Gen AI integration, personalized complete-the-look, Video shopping, etc are just a few examples of the features developed by this team in collaboration with many other teams. Continuous experimentation, innovation and feedback by millions of customers makes this work even more exciting!
What You Will Do:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Android features using Kotlin and XML-based UI layouts.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers and backend engineers to deliver seamless, secure, and intuitive mobile experiences.
- Participate in technical design discussions and implement scalable, testable, and maintainable solutions.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery - from development to deployment and production monitoring with guidance from senior engineers when needed.
- Write clean, well-tested code and actively contribute to code reviews, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices.
- Optimize app performance, reliability, and user experience using profiling tools, crash analytics, and performance monitoring dashboards.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues using observability tools (e.g., OpenObserve), ensuring timely closure.
- Work within a modular architecture and contribute to systems integrating with GraphQL APIs and microservices-based backends.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites (unit, functional, and E2E) to ensure high-quality releases.
- Evaluate and integrate third-party SDKs and APIs to enhance customer engagement, following internal approval processes.
- Contribute to continuous improvements in development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering practices.
- Stay updated with the latest Android ecosystem advancements, Google platform updates, and mobile development trends.
- Drive operational excellence by ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems using AI-driven monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Champion engineering excellence through best practices such as code reviews, design reviews, and CI/CD, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality.
- Implement AI-powered solutions for proactive issue detection, automated root cause analysis, and self-healing systems to reduce downtime and improve system resilience.
- Define and track key engineering and operational metrics, utilizing AI/analytics to drive continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making.
- Foster a culture of innovation by adopting modern AI technologies, encouraging experimentation, and continuously improving development and operational workflows.
What You Will Bring:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 2–6 years of hands-on experience in Android development, preferably in consumer-facing or e-commerce applications.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and solid experience with Android SDK, Views, and XML-based UI development.
- Proven experience building Android applications using MVVM or Clean Architecture patterns.
- Deep understanding of Kotlin Coroutines, including Flow and LiveData for reactive and lifecycle-aware programming.
- Experience integrating with GraphQL (Apollo Client) and/or RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with JavaScript, Node.js or Rust, with the ability to contribute to full-stack applications is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming, concurrency, and data handling.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems like Git, and modern development workflows.
- Experience writing and maintaining automated tests (unit, integration, functional/UI tests).
- Practical experience with debugging, performance tuning, and using tools such as profilers and crash analytics.
- Familiarity with mobile analytics, A/B testing, and personalization techniques is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, clear communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
- A customer-first mindset with a passion for building high-quality, scalable, and impactful mobile applications.
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
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, pto, health benefits, and much more.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Equal opportunity employer
Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
Minimum Qualifications...
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Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
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Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India