(USA) Senior, Software Engineer(Partner engineer or solution engineer)
About The Position
The Senior Partner Engineer (Solutions Engineer) is a highly technical, customer-focused role supporting external developers and partners as they integrate with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem. The position provides hands-on technical guidance across onboarding, architecture, troubleshooting, and optimization, while identifying systemic integration gaps and working with engineering and product teams to improve APIs, developer tooling, automation, and the overall developer experience. The Walmart Marketplace Platform team builds and operates foundational capabilities that help sellers, solution providers, and developers integrate with and scale on Walmart Marketplace. The team works across APIs, developer platforms, tooling, onboarding, and integration experiences, partnering with engineering, product, business teams, and external developers to improve platform adoption, reliability, and developer experience. The annual salary range is $117,000–$234,000. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses; certain positions may also include stock. Walmart describes a range of benefits, including health, financial, paid-time-off, disability, education, and other benefits. Eligibility and terms may depend on job classification and length of employment.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in software engineering, partner engineering, solutions engineering, or developer relations.
- Strong hands-on coding skills and proficiency in Java, NodeJS, Rust, or similar backend development languages.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication and 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 among engineering needs, developer experience, and business outcomes.
- One of the following minimum qualifications: a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area; or 5 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree 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.
- Background creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility into products and services.
Responsibilities
- Partner with external developers, solution providers, and partners to enable successful Walmart Marketplace API integrations.
- Troubleshoot API issues and provide hands-on technical and architectural guidance.
- Define best practices, reference implementations, and scalable integration patterns.
- Build tools, dashboards, automation, and diagnostics to monitor integration health and API adoption.
- Identify systemic integration gaps and partner with engineering to improve APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling.
- Provide developer feedback to influence API design, documentation, and roadmap priorities.
- Partner with Product and Business teams to align platform capabilities with partner needs.
- Advocate for the developer experience by reducing friction and improving partner satisfaction.
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, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes, subject to job classification and length of employment.
- Live Better U: Walmart-paid education programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates, with tuition, books, and fees covered.
- Performance-based bonus awards, including annual or quarterly performance bonuses; certain positions may also include stock.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
