Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

14d•$110,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join the Talent Management Engineering Team as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to help accelerate the delivery of impactful, associate-facing applications and experiences within the People Tech pillar of EBS. In this role, you’ll oversee the full software development lifecycle—from ideation and design to execution, delivery, and continuous iteration. As an engineering leader, you’ll set direction for the team, establish and uphold high standards, and drive operational and technical excellence across multiple initiatives. You will guide the design and development of complex, scalable systems with a focus on reusability, maintainability, and long-term health. You’ll work closely with product, UX, and business stakeholders to align on vision, outcomes, and execution strategies, ensuring the solutions your teams deliver are extensible and impactful across the enterprise. You’ll also play a key role in exploring and integrating AI and Generative AI capabilities to enhance user experiences, improve personalization, and streamline engineering workflows. Whether surfacing intelligent insights or embedding GenAI into core processes, you’ll shape how emerging technologies elevate our products. Equally important, you’ll build and grow a collaborative and high-performing team culture. This includes mentoring senior and junior engineers, supporting career development, and promoting shared learning across development, debugging, and operational best practices. If you’re passionate about leading engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions, applying the latest in AI to amplify business value, and fostering a culture of growth and innovation, we’d love to connect. This role is NOT remote. This role is based out of Bentonville, AR. Relocation is mandatory if selected for this role.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
5-7 years of experience mentoring and leading teams
Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization
Excellent logical and problem-solving skills.
Experience in Distributed Systems Design for fault tolerance and high availability
Experience in event based scalable async architecture
Experience in Multi-threading for speeding up computations on multi-core processors
Building for “as a service” model where components are multi-tenant, customizable and can be leveraged across Walmart’s business verticals
Must have experience in cloud-native distributed application patterns and tools, micro-services architectures and web application frameworks (React, Java, Spring Boot, EDI, Kafka, NoSQL DB’s), application migrations to any cloud platform.
Experience with CI/CD processes and design for high scale, availability, testability and extensibility.
Excellent verbal and written communication
Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot & Rest APIs
Micro Services Architecture, Event Driven Architectures
UI - JavaScript, ES6, HTML5/CSS3, Typescript, React
Cloud - Azure, GCP
Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ
Logging and Monitoring- Splunk, Firebase, Grafana
Database - Azure, SQL, MongoDB, Cosmos, Elastic Search
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

Build, develop and guide a team of high-performing talent.
Participate in technical design & reviews, PoCs.
Be accountable for the engineering practices in the team like technical design, CI-CD, code quality, planning & delivering features
Work with business stakeholders, architects, UX designers, product & program managers
Work with global teams to deliver industry leading capabilities
Able to identify & convey risks & issues to the leadership and help drive mitigate them.
Raise the bar for the team on technology with predictable & consistent deliveries
Good knowledge of Agile practices, Devops
Partner with infrastructure teams

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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