(usa) Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech focused on building and enhancing the marketplace platform for sellers and customers. The role involves providing technical expertise, leading large-scale projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and troubleshooting business/production issues. Requires strong experience in Java, Node.js, React, API design, cloud development, microservices, and databases.

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

  • 8 + years of Experience Strong development experience in Java.
  • 3 + years of experience developing UI/UX with Node.js and React.
  • 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.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices.
  • Experience in software quality and operational excellence practices.
  • Experience in agile development methodology.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area

Nice to have

  • Experience using any of the automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured,AssetJ, Gatling, etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
  • Automated deployment experience is a plus.