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...

Do you enjoy developing, deploying and handling complex production environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain optimal application performance? As a Staff Software Engineer, you are responsible for translating requirements into technical solutions with the focus of creating the best user experience for our associates and customers. You will be part of a project team consisting of other data scientists and engineers who will work together to deliver & deploy ML models at scale, business value and ensure code quality. Communication is also key as you will need to work closely with product owners, designers, and other data scientists & engineers.

About Team: 
This position is in the data science & engineering team called RiskTech under the Enterprise Business Services organisation. Enterprise areas of Walmart like Finance, Indirect Procurement, People Systems and others are in the midst of massive digital transformation.

Our team is building products for these areas from scratch, dealing with challenges from gathering user data, developing machine learning models to understand business processes better and making them more holistically data driven and intelligent. Automated Forecasting, Anomaly Detection, Object Detection and Segmentation, ChatBots, Optimisation are only some of the areas we are actively working on. We leverage machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and big data technologies to get the scale and precision required for solving these problems. We are also working on some cutting edge deep learning and computer vision technologies to solve some of the business critical problems.

What you'll do:

As a Staff Software Engineer (MLE) for Walmart, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Drive data-derived insights across a wide range of divisions by developing advanced statistical models, machine learning algorithms and computational algorithms based on business initiatives
• Direct the gathering of data, assessing data validity and synthesizing data into large analytics datasets to support project goals
• Build scalable and reusable components & productionize the solution by deploying an end-to-end pipeline for ML Solution
• Build and maintain end to end scalable and optimized Machine Learning pipelines
• Communicate recommendations to business partners and influencing future plans based on insights
• Take ownership of achieving complete automation with design for Vision solution with good level of comfort with shell, API design, queuing, Advanced SQL / NoSQL concepts.
• Utilize big data analytics and advanced MLOPs data science techniques to identify trends, patterns, and discrepancies in data.
• Enhance the performance of applications while identifying and addressing bottlenecks from the standpoint of both web applications and machine learning models.
• Apply your computer vision and forecasting expertise where required
• Build and train statistical models and machine learning algorithms

What you'll bring:

• General understanding of software development lifecycle from planning to deployment
• Good understanding of GIT, MLOPs, CI-CD automation, advanced concepts and containerisation in Kubernetes
• Exposure to any cloud computing services (preferably Azure / Google)
• Familiarity with Jenkins for CI and airflow for job orchestration
• Good understanding of Data Lake/warehouse integration with the systems
• Extensive knowledge and exposure in application security and security protocols & identifying vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including IP addressing & network security.
• Working experience with multithreading, data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• High-level proficiency in developing REST APIs using Node.js & Spring boot
• High-level proficiency in using the following technologies to build modern mobile app experiences: JavaScript, Typescript, React, ReactNative, HTML, and CSS/SASS
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies GCP or Azure, and  knowledge on RDBMS, CosmosDB and CI/CD
• Experience with message queues - Kafka, Azure Service bus
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and knowledge of Accessibility design principles.
• Experience on unit testing frameworks (Junit, Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, etc) and code quality control platforms like Sonar 
• Experience with Figma and experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to adapt to change quickly, willingness to learn new and emerging technologies
• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment. 
•  A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things to the next level, and a passion for adopting the latest features in the technologies that we leverage. 
• Exposure to Triton / TFServe Inference and ability to design model monitoring framework with the best ML and Engg principles such as canary deployment, rollback and roll-forward strategy, drift detection, automated model training gates.
• Highly comfortable in writing and reviewing python programs, NumPy and Pandas in Jupiter for prototyping.
• Good understand of permission, authentication and security of the solution with privacy related best practices in web-services.
• Working understanding of Object Detection, Object-segmentation and Tracking models and its challenges.
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty and the eagerness to change the world in a huge way by being a self-motivated learner and builder

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, 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...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India