Position Summary...

About the Team

The Directed Spend team within Walmart’s Transaction Systems portfolio powers how millions of customers use their EBT, SNAP, WIC, and Wellness benefits. We build the intelligence that determines benefit eligibility in real time, helps customers identify what they can purchase, and drives incremental revenue for the business by guiding customers toward qualified, wellness focused products. This is a mission critical engineering team operating at massive scale, designing and running highly reliable Java based backend systems that integrate deeply with Payments, Eligibility, Catalog, Compliance, and ML driven decisioning across Walmart’s global ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and enhance Java based backend services for Directed Spend systems.
• Write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code that operates at Walmart scale across millions of transactions.
• Take end to end ownership of stories — from requirement analysis, development, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Convert business needs into high quality technical designs, including HLD to detailed design (logic flows, pseudo code, mock screens).
• Implement and extend CI/CD, automation, telemetry, observability, and secure coding practices.
• Conduct unit, component, integration, and regression testing to ensure high system reliability.
• Support production systems through monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting, and participate in on call as needed.
• Analyze logs, operational metrics, and telemetry to proactively identify improvements and performance bottlenecks.
• Continuously research and adopt emerging technologies, engineering patterns, and best practices to improve the platform.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, security standards, values, and engineering excellence guidelines.

What you'll bring

• Minimum of 5 years of strong Java backend development experience, including Core Java and Spring/Spring Boot.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs, and cloud native architectures.
• Hands on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, caching systems, and event-driven technologies such as Kafka.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git, build tools, automation, and DevOps engineering practices.
• Experience with various testing methodologies — unit, integration, regression — and a solid grasp of code/test coverage.
• Proven ability to debug, analyze, and resolve complex issues in high-scale, high-availability systems.
• Knowledge of telemetry, observability, monitoring, and performance tuning for backend services.
• Ability to convert business requirements into technical designs and anticipate risks early.
• Fast learner with adaptability to new tools, frameworks, and technologies.
• High sense of ownership, accountability, and commitment to engineering excellence.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with product, architecture, ML, and cross-functional partners.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, pto, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a

Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal opportunity employer

Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

What you'll do...

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 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 5 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, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Information Technology - CISCO Certification - Certification

Primary Location...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India