Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The (USA) Staff, Software Engineer will lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable software solutions aligned with business objectives. This role involves analyzing requirements, creating detailed designs, and ensuring high-quality code that meets functional and non-functional standards. The engineer will collaborate across teams to address technical challenges, drive continuous improvement, and support deployment processes. Expertise in software architecture, coding standards, and testing methodologies is essential to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable applications that enhance operational efficiency and customer experience within a dynamic environment.

About the team:

The Cloud Powered Checkout team develops a scalable, multi-tenant omni-channel checkout platform supporting millions of daily orders globally. The team delivers seamless checkout experiences across all store channels by leveraging high-performance services deployed on Edge and Cloud environments. Collaborating with cross-functional partners, the team drives product strategy, roadmap planning, and data-driven decisions. Members utilize emerging technologies and product lifecycle management to innovate and optimize solutions that address evolving business and customer needs worldwide, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement in a dynamic environment.

What you'll do:

• In this role, you'll collaborate with business teams and product managers to understand project requirements.
• You'll lead a team of Senior Engineers and junior Engineers to plan and execute projects for the team.
• You'll work with teams globally to arrive at optimal solutions involving key stakeholders.
• You will also closely work with the principal engineers to come up with high level and low-level designs.
• You'll develop, unit test, and deliver software components accordingly.
• You'll also contribute to Operational Excellence and Engineering Excellence initiatives.
• Additionally, creating tools and systems to boost team productivity will be a significant part of your responsibilities.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years in software engineering; leading architecture for at scale.
• 5+ years distributed, low-latency backend systems Expertise in , Spring Boot, Kafka, Cassandra/Cosmos, and RDBMS; deep knowledge of caching, idempotence, Java (11/17/21) NoSQL concurrency, and consistency trade-offs.
• Proven ability to set technical direction, influence stakeholders, and deliver multi team initiatives with measurable impact (latency, SLO set technical direction multi-team initiatives attainment, cost optimization).
• Production experience on Kubernetes (WCNP or similar), service mesh, autoscaling, and advanced rollout strategies (canary, blue/green, shadowing)..
• Strong observability and operational readiness mindset (SLOs, dashboards/alerts, incident drills, RCAs).
• Domain experience in promotions/loyalty/rewards, checkout, payments, or policy/rule engines.

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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, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area, 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.

Primary Location...

1395 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America

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.