Senior Software Engineer

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

1d•$129,314 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer assesses gaps and changes between customer or business expectations and existing products or solutions, classifies requirements, anticipates solution risks, and contributes to user stories. The role helps design solutions and components, evaluates design trade-offs, and converts high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic. The engineer develops and configures code for components and applications, helping ensure they meet business, technical, security, availability, scalability, and maintainability needs. The role includes selecting suitable languages, standards, and tools; learning relevant languages and frameworks; automating routine processes; and implementing telemetry features. Responsibilities also include mapping requirements to test objectives, creating and executing test cases, managing and troubleshooting defects, conducting regression testing, and addressing application performance and availability bottlenecks. The engineer independently performs complex application maintenance, monitors application performance and metrics, analyzes logs and maintenance data, evaluates change requests, and helps ensure project milestones and timelines are met. The position is located at 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716. The stated annual pay range is $129,314 to $180,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related area; alternatively, 5 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Experience coding in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, Ruby, or Python.
Experience designing and testing relational database management systems.
Experience designing and building custom templates for scaling cloud infrastructure using Helm or Terraform.
Experience building frontend user interface applications with ReactJS, AngularJS, or EmberJS.
Experience migrating existing on-premises services to cloud infrastructure such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud.
Experience building applications with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or Cassandra.
Experience designing and implementing client-server applications and REST APIs.
Experience with testing suite tools such as Cypress, Selenium, or Cucumber.
Experience with observability tools for logs and metrics such as Splunk, Datadog, Wavefront, or Elasticsearch.

Responsibilities

Assess gaps, updates, and modifications between customer or business expectations and existing products or solutions; classify requirements and contribute to user stories.
Anticipate risks and issues during requirements gathering, notify stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps.
Assist with solution and component design, evaluate trade-offs, and convert high-level designs into detailed designs.
Create and configure code for components and applications, applying appropriate languages, standards, tools, and security policies.
Build scripts to automate repetitive tasks in CI/CD, testing, or other applicable processes; implement telemetry features.
Map customer requirements to test objectives, identify test cases, execute tests, and detect code errors and defects.
Track and analyze defects, perform regression testing, and troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks.
Conduct complex application maintenance, monitor application performance and metrics, perform maintenance and re-engineering, and analyze logs and maintenance data.
Evaluate change requests for validity and feasibility.
Ensure project work adheres to approved milestones and timelines.