(usa) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

This role is for a Staff Software Engineer at Walmart, focusing on building and enhancing the marketplace platform. The engineer will provide technical expertise, lead large-scale projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and troubleshoot issues. Key responsibilities include developing technical solutions, writing code, and ensuring timely delivery. The role requires strong experience in Java, Node.js, React, API design, cloud development, microservices, and asynchronous messaging. Experience with automation tools, CI/CD, and agile methodologies is also mentioned.

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
  • Cloud Application Development
  • Microservices
  • Asynchronous Message Processing
  • Kafka
  • ActiveMQ
  • Relational Databases
  • 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

  • Strong development experience in Java
  • Experience developing UI/UX with Node.js and React
  • Have designed, built, and maintained APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), services, and systems on cloud at large scale including REST, GraphQL, Spring, Tomcat.
  • Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
  • Experience designing scalable microservices.
  • Experience designing loosely coupled services using asynchronous message processing including Kafka, ActiveMQ.
  • Experience working on cloud scale massive relational and No-SQL databases.
  • Experience with design patterns and Architecture framework.