Senior, Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Conversational AI 

Career Level: IN4 

Location: Bangalore, India 

About Team 

As the Conversational AI team we are building completely new capabilities to allow our customers to shop, by seamlessly interacting with their connected devices using spoken and written language. This team is part of the Emerging tech organization and will build new voice experiences both in-house and in collaboration with strategic partners. Voice as a medium for shopping is still in its infancy and as part of this team you will get to work on industry leading solutions and be at the forefront of this emerging platform. 

What you will do: 

As a Senior Engineer for Walmart, you’ll have the opportunity to 

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide. 

• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to a small group of highly skilled and motivated engineers. 

• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.  

• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products. 
   

What you will bring: 

Minimum qualifications: 

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in developing services in Java/SpringBoot 

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in developing applications using Python 

• 4+ years of experience designing, building large distributed systems for high availability and scale 

• 4+ years of experience of developing services using managed servicing public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP or AWS 

• 3+ years of experience and fluency with relational / no-sql (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) databases 

• 3+ year of experience working with Kafka, ActiveMQ, Caches such as Redis or memcached, Elastic Search, Spark and HDFS 

• Proven understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 

• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt 

• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum, agile) 

• Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects  

• Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization 

• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skills 

• Strong communication skills with inclination to high ownership and commitment 

Preferred qualifications: 

• Experience in designing large scale AI/ML products/systems impacting millions of customers 

• Past experience in strong programming skills across big data and ML engineering stack 

About Global Tech. 

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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: 

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. 

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.