Senior, Software Engineer - Backend - Data Ventures

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

106d • $117,000 - $234,000

About The Position

Our organization focuses on managing and delivering world-class data assets, including creating and maintaining data standards, driving policy compliance, creating partnerships, and developing pipelines and self-service tools. We empower our business to leverage data to fuel growth, driving revenue in our core and building new business model opportunities. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend you will be responsible for building, developing, and guiding high-performing talent for the Core Services engineering team. As well as own and support delivery for all the features for the global data engineering and platform.

Requirements

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream - Computer Science preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems.
• A good understanding of Java and Microservices.
• Hands-on experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc).
• Should be hands-on writing/reviewing design & code.
• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of at least one cloud-based project.
• Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines is desirable.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Mentoring/coaching Senior staff engineers and other Engineers.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, conducting unit testing.
• Communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project team 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.
• Model compliance with company policies, procedures and support company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Create training documentation.
• Oversee the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulate system troubleshooting supports.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions.
• Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components.
• Utilize expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications.
• Design and optimize databases using SQL and NoSQL technologies for data storage and retrieval.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and ensure seamless integration with other systems.
• Work with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure to build scalable and secure applications.
• Utilize the ELK stack for log analysis and monitoring of system performance.
• Develop and optimize queries using Big Query to analyze large datasets.
• Collaborate with the team to perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure high-quality code delivery.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

Benefits

• Incentive awards for performance.
• 401(k) match.
• Stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• PTO.
• Multiple health plans.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree