Senior Software Engineer

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

1d • $150,080 - $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 recommendations to stakeholders. The role contributes to user stories and solution design, evaluates design trade-offs, and helps translate high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic.

The engineer develops and configures software components and applications to meet business, technical, security, and non-functional requirements, including availability and scalability needs. Responsibilities include selecting languages, standards, and tools; learning relevant languages and frameworks; automating routine processes with scripts; and independently implementing telemetry features when required.

The role maps customer requirements to test objectives, creates and executes test cases, performs appropriate testing, tracks and analyzes defects, and conducts regression testing. It also involves troubleshooting performance and availability issues, maintaining and re-engineering applications, monitoring application metrics, analyzing logs and performance data, evaluating change requests, and ensuring project work adheres to approved milestones and timelines.

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.
• Experience coding in an object-oriented programming language, including Java.
• Experience testing and troubleshooting web servers, including Tomcat.
• Experience writing test cases using JUnit.
• Experience writing SQL database queries.
• Experience using Agile methodology across analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and support project life cycles.
• Experience writing Bash scripts to automate jobs.
• Experience designing and using NoSQL database queries.
• Experience using system monitoring and metrics solutions.
• Experience analyzing application performance using open-source tools, including JMeter.
• The employer will accept any amount of professional experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between customer or business expectations and existing products or solutions; classify requirements and anticipate and communicate risks with recommended corrective steps.
• Contribute to user stories and assist with designing solutions and evaluating component-level trade-offs.
• Help convert high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic.
• Create and configure software components or applications that meet business, technical, security, and non-functional requirements.
• Assist in selecting programming languages, development standards, and tools, and learn languages and frameworks relevant to future work.
• Build scripts to automate repetitive tasks in CI/CD, testing, or other processes, and implement telemetry features as required.
• Map customer requirements to test objectives; identify, create, and execute test cases using appropriate testing tools.
• Track and analyze defects, perform regression testing, and analyze defects from past projects to help prevent recurrence.
• Troubleshoot application performance and availability bottlenecks; conduct complex application maintenance independently.
• Monitor application performance using appropriate metrics; perform corrective, adaptive, and perfective maintenance and re-engineering.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, and performance data.
• 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, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance, including 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts.
• Military service pay.
• Adoption expense reimbursement.
• Performance-based incentive awards, including annual or quarterly performance incentives. Eligibility and terms may vary by job classification, length of employment, and plan or program terms.

What This Job Offers

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