Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

About Team

If you’re thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. At Walmart Global Tech center Bengaluru, we don’t just innovate, we enable transformations across stores and different channels for the Walmart experience. Take a regular day at Walmart Labs and match that with 260 million customers a week, 10,586 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. That’s Walmart for you.  
 
With fiscal year 2022 revenue of $572 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a simple and seamless experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics are enabling us to better serve our customers and create a digital relationship with them. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We’re changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores, to mobile, social and even online; we’re not just ready for the future of shopping, we’re creating it. 
 

Our Team 

GTP Developer Platform team under Walmart's Global Tech Platforms org, helps thousands of developers save time and code better, so that millions of Walmart associates can help hundreds of millions of customers to save money and live better.  

We are developer’s developer. We provide and foster the cloud native culture to our organization. Our team has the whole gamut of platforms, services, libraries, tools and frameworks on some of the cutting-edge technologies to solve hard, complex developer and high scale business problems. 

What you will do

GTP Developer Platform team provides the best means to take advantage of the cloud by providing outstanding tools, services, assistance, and knowledge, so every customer realizes their goals and desired value. This role is in the Developer Experience organization. We are building the next generation of developer productivity tools powered by Generative AI. We are looking for experienced engineers to help us build the next generation of pipeline and build tools leveraging the latest GenAI technologies. 

As a Full Stack Engineer @Walmart, you’ll have the opportunity to  

• Build and manage solutions and tools, including testing and validation tools that span across infrastructure platform, web, mobile interfaces. 

• Play a crucial role in building the next generation of pipeline and build tools for the Walmart developer community. 

• Development of visualization and observability framework which would help teams improve their software delivery processes using metrics. 

• Do a deep-dive analysis into problem areas and contribute to redesigns that are faster, cleaner, and require less maintenance. 

• Enjoy working on challenges that no one has solved yet. 

• Enable Engineering teams to build applications which are tested, validated and production ready. 

If you can still picture all of this in your head, we should talk!  The job: With thousands of developers using our tools visualizations, this role will be critical to improve developer productivity across Walmart.    
 

What you will bring

A technical strong and high performing individual with excellent communication skills with strong customer focus and appetite to learn and deliver. 

Your Responsibility 

• Experienced full stack performance engineer motivated to make all things run fast. 

• Interested in scaling a highly performant ecommerce platform. 

• Enable developers and business teams understand where bottlenecks or issues exist in their services from a performance context. 

• Self-starter who thrives in a startup-like culture. 

• Enjoy working on complicated technical challenges, learning from, and collaborating with experienced engineers. 

• Needs to contribute to the Open-Source community to help improve the performance and resiliency ecosystem. 

• Sound business judgment as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements, and prioritize. 

Key Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related technical field. 

• 7+ years of Java and JavaScript development experience     

• Experience in using ReactJs/JavaScript/CSS/HTML5 for frontend development    

• Experience in developing REST APIs, streaming APIs, reactive programming in Java    

• Experience in event or message driven applications using Kafka    

• Working knowledge of SQL & NoSQL(MongoDB) and search databases like Elasticsearch/Solr. 

• Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance. 

• DevOps Experience with public cloud (MSFT Azure, AWS, etc)    

• Source Control tools (GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repos etc)    

• CICD tools ( Jenkins, Travis CI, Bamboo, Azure Pipelines etc.)    

• Problem solving and troubleshooting design and development issues and providing appropriate solutions.    

• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams    

• Experience in Agile methodologies   

• Experience working with global teams   

• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize systems and tools. 

• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 

• Good understanding of metadata driven development 

• Excellent problem solving, Critical and Analytical thinking skills. 

It would be preferable if you have: 

• Experience with AI/ML 

• Experience building scalable stateless service in Kubernetes. 

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.