(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 integrating with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem. The role provides hands-on technical guidance across onboarding, architecture, troubleshooting, and optimization, while identifying 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 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, collaborating with engineering, product, business teams, and external developers to improve platform adoption, reliability, and developer experience.
Requirements
- 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 systems fundamentals.
- Experience debugging complex integration issues involving API gateways, backend services, or data pipelines.
- Ability to explain technical details clearly to external developers with varying levels of expertise.
- Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling.
- A product mindset and ability to evaluate tradeoffs among engineering needs, developer experience, and business outcomes.
- Option 1 minimum qualification: 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.
- Option 2 minimum qualification: 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.
- Knowledge of creating inclusive digital experiences, implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility.
Responsibilities
- Help external developers, solution providers, and partners successfully integrate with Walmart Marketplace APIs.
- 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 work 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 developer experience by reducing friction and improving partner satisfaction.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and 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, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
- Performance-based bonus awards and annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
- Stock compensation may be included for certain positions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
