Software Engineer III

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

13d•$90,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Software Engineer III will participate in the discovery phase of projects, creating high-level designs by collaborating 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, translating requirements into technical solutions, conducting unit testing, and ensuring on-time delivery. They will also provide support to the business by responding to user inquiries, researching solutions, and guiding users on system implications. Responsibilities include preparing requirement traceability matrices, contributing to user stories, coding and configuring applications to meet business and technical requirements, and building automation scripts for CI/CD and testing processes. The role also involves implementing telemetry features, ensuring security policies are applied, mapping customer requirements to test objectives, creating and executing test cases, and performing defect management and troubleshooting for performance and availability bottlenecks. Additionally, the engineer will conduct maintenance procedures, monitor application performance, analyze logs and data, and evaluate change requests.

Requirements

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.
Programming in object oriented programming languages (Java, Spring Framework, JavaScript, Python)
Developing microservices using Java, Spring Framework
Designing and Developing REST APIs
Utilizing Docker and Kubernetes to containerize and deploy applications
Integrating CI/CD flow for automated deployments
Performing CURD operations in database using AzureSQL, PostgresSQL, MySQL and Spanner
Leveraging Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana for logging and Dashboarding to monitor application health and resolve production issues
Using GIT for version control system to manage repositories
Using Kafka for message queuing
Creating testing suite for unit and integration tests using Junit, Mockito, Cucumber and Karate
Using Cloud technologies like GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Azure to deploy and manage applications
Analyzing JVM stats to optimize performance and bottlenecks using JFR and thread dups

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.