Software Engineer III

Position Summary...

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. Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

What you'll do...

About Team:

This role is on our Platform team, the engine that fuels all the feature teams. Their goal is to define architecture for the application and make sure the feature teams abide to the architecture. This team also helps the feature team with various code components. This team provides APIs for all the Walmart integrated services.

What you’ll do…

• Research, guide, and execute frontend architecture changes, including but by no means limited to GraphQL, server-side React rendering and Flow typing.

• Build reusable React components with modular CSS, manage data on the client with React Query and GraphQL, and test everything with Jest.

• Measure and resolve performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, WebPagetest, or custom tooling.

• Refactor or improve existing code. We've migrated most of our frontend to React. And we constantly find ways to improve all of our JavaScript code.

• Work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to create amazing and intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together.

•  Help put tools, processes, and documentation in place to improve our code quality.

• Review code written by other team members or other teams.

•  Ship to hundreds of thousands of users every day while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership.

• Work with complex and varied data structures (APIs can be a little, uh, eccentric).

• Help out with our React-based developer platform.

• Share what you know and learn either one-on-one or with lightning talks to the group.

• Give back to the community via open source and blog posts.

• Experiment: this is a startup-like environment so everything can change as we experiment with doing more custom partnership work

• As a part of Walmart Labs' all-hands philosophy, help customers via support to ensure they have the best experience possible.

• Closely collaborate with other platform team members across across web, iOS and Android app and define uniform solutions for all platforms

• Provide documentation for all the solutions in place

• Inspire best Practices and create culture of craftsmanship and innovation.

• Lead a team of senior Individual Contributors 

• Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practices; bench marking industry against internal processes and solutions; researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with internal needs; and defining software development guidelines, standards and processes.

What you'll bring:

• 3-6+ years of modern web development experience

• Understanding in software development using modern languages (React JS)

• Thorough understanding of React.JS and its core principles 

• Own code quality and experience in writing extensive unit tests

• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks quickly

• Ability to deliver in Agile method (SCRUM)

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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, 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.

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, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 2years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Certification in Security+, Network+, GISF, GSEC, CISSP, or CCSP, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related area

Primary Location...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India