STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team: 
The Item API team is invested in building highly efficient APIs & business automation workflows for Suppliers & internal merchants. At Walmart Global Tech in India that works on building solutions for various business functions and for multiple Walmart markets, you’ll have the opportunity to define, implement, and deliver products using openstack technologies.

What you'll do:

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide drive value from data at Walmart Scale

• Develop high performance and scalable solutions/APIs that extract, transform, and load Spark/big data.

• Experience performing root cause analysis on data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Experience building and optimising ‘spark/big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets involving petabyte and terabyte of data.

• 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 product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.

• Closely interact with Engineers from within Walmart to identify right open-source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot.

• Engage with Product Management and Business to support and build data solutions and develop expertise w.r.t data thereby being known as the true data analyst.

• You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.

• You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance.

• Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work.

• You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.

• You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.

What you'll bring:

• 10 -14 years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable applications and platform development. 

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

• Hands on experience in building Micro-services, ability to build REST services using Java, Spring Boot.

• Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load Spark/big data.

• Working knowledge of SQL /No-SQL and database technologies (Big Query, Cassandra)

• Experience on Cloud Architecture, Micro-services Architecture and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with event-based system processing such as Kafka

• Experience in deploying solutions on any of these cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)

• Work exposure on Agile methodologies and DevOps would be added advantage

• Well versed with Testing frameworks like JUnits

• CI/CD Automation experience with tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins & Azure DevOps

• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical & innovative solutions

• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control

• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

• 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. 

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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

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