Senior Software Engineer

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer owns scoped feature or model delivery through collaborative engineering teams, managing implementation, iteration, testing, and ongoing support for assigned services, APIs, user interfaces, or ML model components. The role uses a product-driven mindset to align outcomes with broader platform, system, and domain objectives.

The engineer writes clean, efficient, and reliable code and drives the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD deployments, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and maintenance. The role integrates AI agents and ML components through internal and external APIs, uses GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, and applies object-oriented programming and documentation-based coding practices.

The position assists in translating high-level designs into detailed designs, evaluates technical trade-offs, and helps create scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems aligned with Walmart standards. It engages stakeholders to define complex business or user problems, turn pain points into actionable technical requirements, and establish metrics for measuring solution success. The role also monitors application performance, supports project milestones and reliable delivery, mentors peers, shares knowledge, and takes ownership of feature quality, performance, and completion.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related area and 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area; OR bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of these fields and 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Experience designing and implementing REST API web services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience coding in an object-oriented programming language, specifically Java.
• Experience designing client-server architecture and mobile systems architecture.
• Experience designing relational database management systems, including Azure SQL, Oracle, and Postgres, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra.
• Experience building DevOps CI/CD for continuous integration using Jenkins and Concord.
• Experience developing container-based applications using Docker, S3, AWS CDK, and Kubernetes.
• Experience developing event-streaming and messaging applications using Apache Kafka, JMS, and SNS.
• Experience developing frameworks such as Spring for enterprise application development and microservices architecture.
• Experience performing system administration and shell scripting in Linux.
• Experience operating source code management and versioning tools such as Git.

Responsibilities

• Own scoped feature or model delivery through collaborative engineering teams.
• Manage implementation, iteration, testing, and ongoing support for assigned services, APIs, user interfaces, or ML model components.
• Write clean, efficient, and reliable code and drive the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD deployments, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Build scripts to automate repetitive tasks and independently implement telemetry features.
• Conduct code structure reviews and support defect management and debugging.
• Integrate AI agents and ML components using internal and external APIs, and use GenAI tools to improve development velocity and innovation.
• Assist in converting high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic.
• Evaluate trade-offs and design scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems aligned with Walmart standards.
• Participate in design reviews and ensure appropriate design patterns and principles are implemented.
• Support peer growth through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Engage stakeholders to identify and refine complex business or user problems, translate pain points into technical requirements, and define metrics for solution success and impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet user needs and technical expectations.
• Conduct complex maintenance procedures and monitor application performance using appropriate metrics and tools.
• Track project milestones and timelines through program reporting, CI/CD tools, and program logging systems.
• Promote continuous improvement, team wellbeing, engineering best practices, innovation, and platform enhancement.
• Own the quality and performance of delivered features, support uptime and customer experience, resolve issues, and drive projects to completion.
• Adapt to change, consider downstream effects of technical choices, integrate feedback, and communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based incentive awards, including annual or quarterly performance incentives.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance, including company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts.
• Military service pay.
• Adoption expense reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior