Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Chennai, India

Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) to lead architecture, development, and delivery of highly scalable, cloud-native platforms for Talent Acquisition technology domain. This role involves setting technical direction, designing and developing microservices and front-end applications, influencing platform architecture, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong backend (Java/Spring Boot) and frontend (React/TypeScript) expertise, distributed systems understanding, cloud-native patterns on Kubernetes, and experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices. Exposure to AI/ML ecosystem and enterprise domains is also mentioned.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead architecture & technical direction for large-scale full‑stack systems (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript).
  2. Define API strategy, domain models, UI architecture, and integration patterns across services.
  3. Drive standardization on secure coding, API contracts, versioning, CI/CD, and observability.
  4. Build and evolve resilient, fault-tolerant, cloud-native microservices with strong SLAs.
  5. Develop responsive, accessible, and modular frontend applications using React & TypeScript.

Skills

Required

  • Java (17+)
  • Python
  • Spring Boot
  • REST
  • microservice architecture
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress)
  • distributed systems
  • caching
  • consistency
  • resiliency patterns
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • system design
  • CI/CD
  • automated testing
  • DevOps practices
  • public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Kubernetes
  • Agile environments
  • problem-solving
  • communication skills
  • Kafka or event-driven architectures
  • GraphQL
  • API gateways
  • schema governance
  • PostgreSQL/MySQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • machine learning
  • search systems
  • information retrieval
  • enterprise domains: HR tech, workflow systems, finance/operations
  • AI/ML ecosystem

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.