Senior Software Engineer

What you'll do...

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

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: 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; OR 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.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Coding in an object oriented programming language Java; Writing unit tests using JUnit and Mockito frameworks; Designing and implementing RestFul web services in Java using Spring Boot and writing integration tests for the same; Developing applications using Scala in Play framework; Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and using Git as source control management and build tool as Maven; Containerizing and orchestrating containers of applications using docker and kubernetes; Using cloud technologies like Google cloud; Performing CRUD operations with RDBMS datatabases such as AzureSQL; Working on NoSQL databases such as Cassandra; Aggregating all the application logs and sending them to Splunk; Utilizing caching strategies to store high volume static API responses onto disk stores to improve the performance using MeghaCache; Implementing message queues to produce and consume messages using Kafka; Configuring SonarQube to resolve security bugs as part of build process; and Following OWASP principles while developing. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.