About The Position

Walmart is seeking a highly technical and customer-focused Senior Partner Engineer to facilitate the successful integration of external developers with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem. Walmart Global Tech is a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts, and service professionals dedicated to making an epic impact and leading retail disruption. The company emphasizes innovation powered by people, offering opportunities for career growth and skill development. Walmart, founded by Sam Walton, is committed to helping customers save money and live better, and is currently reinventing the shopping experience with associates at its core.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, partner engineering, solutions engineering, or developer relations
  • Strong hands-on coding skills with proficiency in Java, NodeJS, Rust, or similar backend development languages
  • Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication/authorization flows, and distributed system fundamentals
  • Experience debugging complex integration issues involving API gateways, backend services, or data pipelines
  • Ability to translate technical details into clear guidance for external developers with varying levels of expertise
  • Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling
  • Strong product mindset and ability to evaluate tradeoffs between engineering needs, developer experience, and business outcomes
  • Option 1: Bachelor'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.
  • Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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.
  • 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 supporting an inclusive culture following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with external developers, solution providers, and partners to guide them through integrating with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem
  • Troubleshoot integration issues, debug API requests/responses, and provide hands-on technical guidance
  • Provide architectural recommendations, best practices, and reference implementations to help partners build reliable, scalable integrations
  • Optimize partner resource utilization (compute efficiency, rate limits, data usage, etc.) to ensure performant and cost-effective integration
  • Develop tools, dashboards, and metrics to monitor integration health, API usage, error patterns, and adoption trends
  • Identify systemic integration gaps and work with engineering and product teams to address them
  • Build automation and diagnostics to proactively surface developer friction points or API contract inconsistencies
  • Collaborate with Marketplace core engineering teams to design foundational systems, SDKs, and integration patterns that improve API adoption and developer experience
  • Provide real-world feedback from external developers to influence API design, documentation, and roadmap priorities
  • Contribute to sample apps, libraries, documentation improvements, and developer tooling that streamline partner integration
  • Partner with product managers to shape API capabilities, onboarding flows, and developer-facing features
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure partner needs, Marketplace goals, and platform capabilities are aligned
  • Advocate for the partner/developer voice across the organization and help prioritize initiatives that reduce friction and improve satisfaction

Benefits

  • Incentive awards for performance
  • Maternity and parental leave
  • PTO (including sick leave)
  • Health benefits (medical, vision, dental coverage)
  • 401(k)
  • Stock purchase
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Family care leave
  • Bereavement
  • Jury duty
  • Voting leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Company discounts
  • Military Leave Pay
  • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates)
  • Performance-based bonus awards
  • Stock
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