(usa) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Software Engineer role focused on building and enhancing Walmart's marketplace platform, enabling third-party sellers, and improving customer and seller experiences. The role involves deep technical expertise, leading large-scale projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and troubleshooting business/production issues. Requires strong Java, Node.js, React, API design, cloud development, microservices, and database experience.

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
  • API design (REST, GraphQL)
  • Cloud application development
  • Microservices design
  • Asynchronous message processing (Kafka, ActiveMQ)
  • Relational and No-SQL databases
  • Design patterns
  • Architecture framework

Nice to have

  • Automation toolset (Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Automated deployment
  • Software quality
  • Operational excellence practices
  • Agile development methodology

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.