Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do...

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Job Location: 10790 Parkridge Drive, Suite 200, Reston, VA 20191

Duties: Leads assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and providing feedback for proposed solutions; and performing design and code reviews of changes. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation. Provides support to the business by responding to user's questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); identifying short- and long-term solutions; facilitating resolutions; and leading cross-functional partnership. Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business and user experience teams; and obtaining cross-function approvals. Leads and participates in medium to large scale projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing and implementing REST API web services using various Java frameworks and advanced Java EE like Spring and Spring Boot; Designing high and auto-scalable, self-resilient and low latency microservices applications using public cloud; Designing and implementing database designs with normalization, creating tables, stored procedures, SQL functions, views, creating indexes on tables, improving the performance of SQL queries, tunning SQL queries and database migrations; Designing architecture diagrams, system designs, Technical Design Documents, and application workflow diagrams; Designing messaging services and data pipeline using Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Spark, RDBM Database & NoSQL Databases; Containerization of applications using Docker and Kubernetes frameworks; Implementing various design patterns for better performance, maintainability, enhancements, and better code quality; Coding and implementing object-oriented programming concepts (OOPS) using Java language; Implementing core Java and advanced Java (J2EE) technology features like Multithreading, Streaming API, File API, RMI, JDBC, NIO, Servlet, or JSP; ORM frameworks like Hibernate, Spring DAO, Spring JDBC template, or JPA; Spring framework modules like Spring Core, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, or Spring AOP; Relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server or Postgres SQL; Test code coverage using JUnit and Mockito with a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach; CI/CD using its associated build tools like GIT, Maven, or Jenkins; Design and Build systems monitoring and alerting dashboard using Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch and Prometheus; and Build User Interface using Angular, TypeScript, HTML 5, and CSS. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.