(usa) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, focusing on building and enhancing the marketplace platform for sellers and customers. The role involves technical leadership, large-scale project execution, API/service development, cloud architecture, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-value insights and capabilities.

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. Lead and drive large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, recommending data-backed decisions, and developing code and unit tests. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
  3. 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.
  4. Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
  5. Provide support to the business by responding to users’ questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Node.js
  • React
  • APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
  • services
  • systems on cloud
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Spring
  • Tomcat
  • cloud application development
  • scalable
  • data driven
  • Cloud Cost-optimization
  • message-oriented architecture
  • scalable microservices
  • asynchronous message processing
  • Kafka
  • ActiveMQ
  • cloud scale massive relational databases
  • cloud scale No-SQL databases
  • design patterns
  • Architecture framework
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • software quality
  • operational excellence practices
  • agile development methodology

Nice to have

  • automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured,AssetJ, Gatling, or equivalent tools
  • Automated deployment experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 + years of Experience Strong development experience in Java.
  • 3 + years of experience developing UI/UX with Node.js and React.