Staff, Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Software Engineer on Walmart’s Marketplace Traffic Exposure team, you will help design and maintain frameworks that support Marketplace capabilities and deliver high-performing applications that enable sellers to drive customer traffic to their offers through paid and organic channels. You will code, debug, optimize, and monitor application health, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and UX/UI teams to deliver integrations and software products. You will lead technical design and delivery across projects, shape architectural decisions, and guide engineers building secure REST services. You will take ownership across the technical stack and work to improve delivery speed, developer productivity, availability, quality, performance, and resiliency. The role also includes diagnosing production and business issues, coordinating with support teams, conducting root-cause analysis, and communicating with stakeholders. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer-sponsored immigration support; Walmart does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building complex architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, event-streaming platforms such as Kafka, and container technologies.
- Disciplined software development practices, including code reviews, testing, documentation, and clean code.
- Willingness to continuously improve, learn, and adopt capabilities in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.
- Ability to translate requirements into project plans while working in an agile environment.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to solve business problems and deliver customer experiences.
- Collaborative leadership style that encourages teamwork and insight-driven outcomes.
- Minimum qualification: a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of software engineering or related experience; or 6 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer-sponsored immigration support.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery data warehousing and Cloud Bigtable NoSQL.
- A master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related area and 2 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of multiple business- or technology-driven projects with small to medium-sized teams.
- Shape architectural decisions and champion scalable, secure, and efficient solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to teammates, partner teams, and engineers.
- Guide engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven, and cloud technologies.
- Improve delivery speed, developer productivity, and engineering effectiveness across the technical stack.
- Drive availability, quality, performance, and resiliency goals with the team.
- Collaborate with Product, Business, Operations, and other cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software.
- Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information, assessing impact and criticality, performing root-cause analysis, engaging support teams, developing action plans, and completing documentation.
- Communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Write and review code and lead technical and architectural design discussions.
- Establish tools, processes, and documentation to improve code quality and engineering standards.
- Mentor junior engineers and support their professional growth.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
