Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Software Engineer (iOS) role focused on designing and developing scalable solutions to optimize Walmart's Home Page, impacting millions of customers and associates worldwide. The role involves managing complex projects, translating requirements into technical solutions, coding, testing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency within the consumer domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manages medium to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.
  2. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short and long term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain.
  3. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation.
  4. Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.
  5. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.

Skills

Required

  • Technical Solutions Architecture and Design
  • API design, development, and management
  • Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
  • multithreading, networking, offline storage and performance tuning
  • Swift, iOS SDK
  • Graphql
  • app architecture using design patterns such as MVVM, MVP or Clean
  • testability
  • test coverage
  • disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure
  • JAVA
  • Agile methodologies

Nice to have

  • Constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level
  • passion for adopting the latest features in Android
  • intellectual curiosity
  • student of the world

What the JD emphasized

  • Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3+ year of experience in software engineering or related area OR a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 10+ years of experience in software engineering or related area
  • Expert level knowledge of Swift, iOS SDK and experience working with Graphql
  • Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity.