Software Engineer III

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

8d • $90,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineer III will participate in the discovery phase of projects, creating high-level designs in collaboration with product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. This role involves troubleshooting business and production issues through root cause analysis, engaging support teams, developing solutions, and creating action plans. The engineer will manage complex projects by translating requirements into technical solutions, researching alternatives, and ensuring value to the business. Responsibilities include writing and developing code, conducting unit testing, communicating status, collaborating with teams, and ensuring on-time delivery. The role also involves supporting the business by responding to user questions and concerns, identifying solutions, and providing guidance on system implications. Additionally, the engineer will prepare requirement traceability matrices, contribute to user stories, and ensure components meet business and technical requirements, including non-functional aspects like maintainability, availability, and scalability. They will assist in selecting appropriate coding languages, standards, and tools, and take initiative to learn new technologies. Building automation scripts for CI/CD and testing, implementing telemetry features, and ensuring security policy adherence are also key duties. In testing, the engineer will map requirements to test objectives, create and execute test cases, and perform various types of testing. Defect management includes tracking, analyzing, and performing regression testing, as well as analyzing past defects to prevent recurrence. Troubleshooting performance and availability bottlenecks, conducting maintenance procedures, monitoring application performance, and evaluating change requests are also part of the role. A DevOps orientation is expected, including managing applications, analyzing logs and performance data, and performing re-engineering activities.

Requirements

• Designing & developing high-performance, scalable backend micro services using java & spring boot framework
• Working with reactive programming frameworks such as reactor for non-blocking, asynchronous data processing
• Designing & developing distributed systems with focus on scalability, fault tolerance & inter-service communication patterns for large scale applications
• Working with message queuing & event streaming systems such as Apache Kafka for reliable asynchronous communication between micro-services
• Working with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra for handling unstructured data, distributed data storage & high throughput applications
• Designing & working with relational databases such as SQL
• Implementing caching solutions using distributed caching systems such as mega cache for improving application performance & reducing database load
• Implementing application monitoring, logging & observability solutions using tools such as Splunk, openObserve, Grafana, prometheus for performance analysis & system health tracking
• Working with continuous integration & continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines & version control processes to manage source code & automated build, testing & deployment activities
• Deploying & managing containerized applications using Kubernetes - based container orchestration platforms to support application scaling, availability & configuration management
• Master's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Nice To Haves

• Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information; performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation.
• Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.
• Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues; researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain.
• Prepare requirement traceability matrix and maintain traceability between business requirements, functional requirements, design, and test cases.
• Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements.
• To create/configure minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the components are meeting business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs.
• Assist in the selection of appropriate languages, development standards and tools for software coding/configuration.
• Take initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work.
• Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD, Testing or any other process.
• Implement telemetry features as required independently.
• Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration.
• To map the customer requirements in to test objectives.
• Identify and create test cases for the component/module.
• Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component.
• Execute different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs.
• To track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes.
• Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects.
• Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application.
• To conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance and re-engineering activities.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.

Benefits

• Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

What This Job Offers

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