(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering
About The Position
As a Senior Engineering Manager for Discovery E2E, you will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and evolving these end-to-end customer experiences. You will combine strong technical leadership with people leadership, execution excellence, and cross-functional partnership to deliver highly available, performant, and scalable products while developing a high-performing engineering organization. About the team: The Discovery E2E Engineering team at Walmart Global Tech creates innovative shopping experiences that guide millions of customers from inspiration to product selection. This team develops scalable, intelligent discovery solutions across web, mobile, and orchestration platforms, focusing on Home, Search, Item Page, Browse, and Category experiences. This role will have a particular focus on building and evolving Marketplace experiences across these Discovery surfaces, helping customers seamlessly discover and engage with Walmart Marketplace assortment. Comprising Engineering, Product Management, UX, Business, Data Science, and Analytics professionals, the team rapidly iterates using experimentation and customer insights. Their work integrates AI-powered personalization and rich content to enhance engagement and effectiveness, delivering seamless, intuitive shopping journeys at Walmart’s scale.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and developing software engineering teams delivering large-scale customer-facing products.
- Strong technical depth in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, orchestration, scalability, reliability, and system design.
- Experience with web, mobile, and orchestration platforms and modern engineering practices including CI/CD and observability.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- AI-native mindset with a passion for exceptional customer experiences.
- 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.
- OR 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team delivering end-to-end Marketplace experiences across Discovery surfaces, spanning web, mobile, and orchestration platforms.
- Drive architecture, execution, scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence for large-scale customer-facing products.
- Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Analytics, and Business to define strategy, roadmaps, and differentiated shopping experiences.
- Champion experimentation, observability, CI/CD, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Drive root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions for complex production issues.
- Build a culture of belonging, integrity, ownership, innovation, collaboration, talent development, and strong execution.
Benefits
- Incentive awards for performance
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- Financial benefits
- Company-paid life insurance
- Paid time off benefits
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates
- Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
