Senior Software Engineer

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

1d•$90,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer analyzes requirements and scopes solutions by assessing existing products, identifying gaps against customer or business expectations, classifying requirements, anticipating risks, and contributing to user stories. The role assists with designing product components and modules, evaluating design trade-offs, and translating high-level designs into detailed designs, including mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic. The engineer develops and configures code for components and applications to meet business, technical, and non-functional requirements, including maintainability, availability, scalability, and security. The role selects appropriate languages, standards, and tools; builds automation scripts for CI/CD and testing; and implements telemetry as needed. It also maps requirements to test objectives, creates and executes test cases, manages defects and regression testing, and troubleshoots performance and availability bottlenecks. The role independently performs complex application maintenance, monitors application metrics and logs, carries out corrective, adaptive, and perfective maintenance and re-engineering, evaluates change requests, and analyzes maintenance and performance data. It also monitors project progress against approved milestones and timelines. The position is located at 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716. The employer offers a pay range of $90,000 to $180,000 per year, with additional annual or quarterly performance incentives. Walmart describes a benefits package that includes health, financial, paid-time-off, disability, education, discount, and other benefits; eligibility and terms may vary.

Requirements

Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 1 year of software engineering or related experience; OR a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in one of those fields plus 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs for web-based and mobile application front ends.
Experience developing and implementing Jenkins build and deployment jobs for Java Bean and multi-Maven projects on ECS containers and bare-metal servers.
Experience developing LDAP authentication and single sign-on features for Spring Boot projects and migrating Spring Boot projects to newer versions.
Experience migrating stateless applications from bare-metal servers and ECS containers to EKS, and instrumenting and procuring infrastructure resources for application scaling based on user traffic.
Experience managing build artifacts using ECR registry service to maintain deployed artifact versions on webservers.
Experience using ECS with Docker container scripts to post build artifacts.
Experience creating Shell scripts to automate certificate installation on webservers, disaster-recovery activities, and recurring operational issues such as hung JVM threads caused by long-running database transactions.
Experience creating YAML scripts to provide application configuration for Docker-built artifacts deployed to ECS containers, including Jenkins build and deployer scripts.
Experience with Java 6, 8, and 11 and Spring and Spring Boot for enterprise applications.
Experience using Docker to containerize web applications for deployment across stand-alone and ECS containers.
Experience creating relational database schemas and using Hibernate for object-oriented data models in Spring Boot applications.
Experience with orchestration platforms such as Concord and OneOps.
The employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

Analyze and scope requirements, assess existing solutions, identify gaps, classify requirements, anticipate risks, and recommend corrective actions.
Contribute to user stories for components, applications, or complex solutions.
Assist in designing solutions and product components; evaluate trade-offs and develop detailed designs from high-level designs.
Create and configure code that meets business, technical, non-functional, security, maintainability, availability, and scalability requirements.
Help select programming languages, development standards, and tools, and learn relevant languages and frameworks.
Build scripts to automate repetitive CI/CD, testing, and other tasks; implement telemetry features as required.
Map customer requirements to test objectives, create and execute test cases, and perform appropriate types of testing.
Track and analyze defects, perform regression testing, analyze defects from past work to prevent recurrence, and troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks.
Independently conduct complex application maintenance; monitor application metrics; perform corrective, adaptive, and perfective maintenance and re-engineering.
Analyze application logs, maintenance activity, and performance data; assess whether change requests are valid and feasible.
Monitor projects for adherence to approved milestones and timelines.