Senior Software Engineer

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $117,000 - $234,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer assesses gaps between customer and business expectations and existing products or solutions, classifies requirements, anticipates risks, and communicates issues and corrective recommendations to stakeholders. The role contributes to user stories and helps design solutions for product components and modules, evaluating trade-offs and translating high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic.

The engineer creates and configures code for components and applications, ensuring they satisfy business, technical, and non-functional requirements, including maintainability, availability, scalability, and security. The role supports language, standards, and tool selection; builds automation scripts for CI/CD and testing; and implements telemetry. It also maps customer requirements to test objectives, creates and executes test cases, tracks and analyzes defects, performs regression testing, and investigates performance and availability bottlenecks.

The position independently conducts complex application maintenance and re-engineering, monitors performance metrics, analyzes logs and maintenance data, evaluates change requests, and ensures work adheres to approved milestones and timelines. The role is based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, California.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related area, plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or a related area; OR bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of these fields, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing scalable database schemas and configuring data models in relational databases.
• Experience developing and maintaining non-relational objects in NoSQL databases using sharding and partition keys.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including validation hooks for code coverage, build mechanisms, code linters, dependency and vulnerability checks, and unit and regression tests.
• Experience writing robust, maintainable backend code using Java and object-oriented principles.
• Experience preparing high-level and low-level designs for backend processes.
• Experience implementing backend microservices using Java frameworks and libraries, including J2EE, Hibernate, JPA, JDBC, and Spring configurations.
• Experience implementing the Singleton, Factory, Strategy, and Adapter software design patterns.
• Experience building dashboards, alerts, and metrics for production systems.
• Experience following Agile methodology in the software development lifecycle.
• The employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between customer or business expectations and existing products or solutions, including for agile iterations.
• Classify requirements, anticipate risks and issues during requirements gathering, inform stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps.
• Contribute to user stories for components, applications, or complex work in agile settings.
• Assist in designing solutions that allow processes and applications to work together for product components and modules.
• Evaluate design trade-offs based on business requirements.
• Convert high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and detailed functional logic.
• Create and configure code for components and applications and ensure business, technical, and non-functional requirements are met.
• Assist in selecting programming languages, development standards, and coding or configuration tools.
• Learn coding languages and frameworks relevant to future work.
• Build scripts to automate repetitive tasks in CI/CD, testing, or other applicable processes.
• Implement telemetry features.
• Apply security policy requirements during code development and configuration.
• Map customer requirements to test objectives and identify and create test cases for components or modules.
• Execute test cases, conduct appropriate types of testing with suitable tools, and detect code errors and defects.
• Track and analyze defects, perform regression testing after code changes, and analyze past defects to help prevent recurrence.
• Troubleshoot application performance and availability bottlenecks.
• Conduct complex application maintenance procedures independently.
• Monitor and evaluate application performance using appropriate metrics.
• Perform corrective, adaptive, and perfective maintenance and re-engineering activities.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, and performance data and provide analysis.
• Evaluate change requests for validity and feasibility.
• Ensure project work adheres to approved milestones and timelines.

Benefits

• 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 time.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance, including 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts.
• Military service pay.
• Adoption expense reimbursement.
• Annual or quarterly performance incentives.

What This Job Offers

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