Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Do you strive to set a strong example on your team when it comes to technical excellence, code quality, and production stability? Would you like to take this role to a new level by applying your rigor to the back end experience on www.business.walmart.com? On the New Business & Emerging Technologies Engineering team at Walmart Global Tech, we provide technology to power shopping journeys that help over our new business customers live better. We strive to create the best shopping experience period and meet our business customers’ evolving needs and expectations.
 

“Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.”

About Team:

The Walmart Business Back End team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the team and harmonize with the existing enthusiastic and talented associates to deliver a great site experience that scales to billions of queries for millions of products. This collaborative team is made up of engineering, UX, and product management, and is rapidly iterating new products and site features using industry standard open-source technologies like Java, React, NextJS, Fastify, GraphQL, Kubernetes and Typescript. We deliver high performing solutions on our brand-new platform based on the technologies mentioned above. Continuous innovation and immediate feedback from over new business customers make this work incredibly exciting!
 

What you'll do:

As a Staff Engineer, you will set the tone of engineering-excellence and drive processes and standards within the team. You will lead the design of complex software changes and take on the development of exciting new features. In addition, you will partner with your senior and junior teammates throughout the software development lifecycle to cultivate a reciprocal learning environment from development to debugging and operational excellence.

If you have a passion for high performance software engineering, and the ability to inspire teams to produce high quality code and features, let’s talk!

• Provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide projects.
• Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
• Work with Walmart’s Platform community to drive improvement to the overall foundation on which Walmart.com stands.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality and efficiency.
• Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development, product and business teams.
• Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability.
• Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
• Monitor the health of web pages, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
• Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.

What you'll bring:
 

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive backend applications.
• 2+ years of Experience with Java/C++ or Python and their ecosystems.
• Proven ability in building large scale backend applications
• Experience operating software running on a containerized platform (Docker, Kubernetes, etc..)
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with unit testing and functional automation frameworks
• Experience with engineering best practices, including use of design patterns, and code reviews.
• Ability to create prototypes from ideas and mockups from wire frames.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively in both independent and team environments.
• Good understanding of version control systems, preferably GIT.
• Experience with Agile methodology is a plus.

Preferred
 

• Experience with Java/C++, REST APIs,
• Active contributor of digital communities like Github, Stack Overflow or others
   

“Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.”

About Walmart Global Tech
At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...

840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America