(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team

Sam’s club is a membership-based retail warehouse club owned and operated by Walmart.  With more than 600 physical clubs across different geographic region in US, Sam’s Club chain serves more than 50 million US members and is rated among the top retailers in US. 

What you'll do:

• Design and build fault tolerant, scalable solutions
• Troubleshoot critical and high-impact production issues
• Lead a team of talented engineers.

Your Opportunity

You will be responsible for one or more business problems and suggesting technical solution. You

will be interacting with business / end users to understand the problem space and provide the

technical solution. You will be driving the architecture and design for the proposed solution and

owning the technical quality of the solution. You will also have challenging opportunities to cross-

collaborate with inter-disciplinary product and engineering teams to solve some of the unique

challenges in multi-channel shopping experience. 

Your Responsibility:

• Understand business problems and suggest technology solutions
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology(POT) evaluations
• Lead engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications using variety of languages and tools/technology stacks.
• Publish and update technical architecture and user/process documentation.
• Architect, design, build and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers.
• You will need to exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with business, product, engineering and management across different geographic locations
• Create and recommend solution design options factoring in requirements, standards and current Infrastructure environment. Communicate and present solutions to the other stakeholders
• Guide and mentor other members in the team to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams.

What you'll bring:

• Technical leadership
• Hands on experience with scalable systems

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree and 10+ yrs. of experience in Computer Science or related field

• 5 or more years of experience with Java (Spring MVC, Hibernate) in building multi-threaded high-performance scalable applications
• 5+ Yrs of experience with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), RESTful web services
• Hands on in Architecting and developing large scale Core Java applications
• Very strong experience in Search technologies, Data Structures, Algorithms, Problem solving skills. Should write excellent code with high quality for production use in scalable systems. Strong Java/J2EE, Pyspark, Python or scripting development. Strong SQL skills and DB knowledge
• Deep Understanding of Application and Infrastructure as well as overall Operations/Network Management eco-systems for efficient operations management
• Experience in Real time applications, Transactional Systems, Encryption
• Strong technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and data stores
• Ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
• A self-motivated learner and builder with strong customer focus and obsession with quality

You are a Code Ninja who has conceptualized, developed and deployed substantially complex, business critical software components in his/her career. You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with entrepreneurial passion and desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities. You have a passion to mentor and drive technical associates to deliver quality products in an agile environment. You have a flair to setup new process and bring in an innovative mindset to drive the team. 

Mandatory Skills

 Prior experience with search systems e.g. Elastic Search, Spring boot, Java

Desirable Skills

Domain Experience in ecommerce

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:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

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.

 

Minimum Qualifications...

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

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

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, SEZ, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India