Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Staff Software Engineer role within Walmart's Corporate Tech. Services (CTS) Tax Engineering team. Focuses on designing, developing, and implementing digital solutions for tax compliance, merchant tooling, data insights, and personalized experiences. Requires strong Java development, microservices, REST API, and cloud experience. The role involves technical leadership, architectural decisions, mentorship, and project execution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
  2. Play a pivotal role in shaping architectural decisions, championing scalable and efficient solutions to meet present and future needs.
  3. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership and mentorship to your teammates, other teams and engineers
  4. Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
  5. Collaborate with project teams and cross functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide input on project plan.

Skills

Required

  • 8 + years of Strong development experience in Java.
  • Experience designing and implementing REST API web services using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring MVC.
  • Experience writing unit test cases for code verification and code coverage using JUnit and Mockito.
  • Experience deploying applications to the server using Docker and Jenkins.
  • Experience designing and testing RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience designing scalable microservices.
  • Experience testing and troubleshooting packets and HTTP/S traffic using Wireshark and Charles.
  • Experience providing release support and monitoring system health using Kubernetes.
  • Experience monitoring logs and errors for troubleshooting using Splunk.
  • Experience maintaining a producer-consumer architecture with Apache Kafka.
  • Experience maintaining code using Git and GitHub.
  • Experience publishing and managing dependencies using Maven
  • Experience with public cloud technologies such as Azure OR Google Cloud Platform.
  • Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience documenting and maintaining Confluence pages.