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 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.

Team and Position Summary:

U.S. Technology: This business closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores and merchants with technology innovation. rom grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate — whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization. 

Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of next generation search solution for Walmart eCommerce leveraging Generative AI and other recent ML solutions.

Position Responsibilities:

• Understand business problems and suggest technology solutions.

• Architect, design, build and deploy technology solutions at scale

• Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.

• Estimate effort, identify risks and plan execution.

• Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.

• Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole.

Position Requirements:

Minimum qualifications:

• B.E./B. Tech/M Tech/MS in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 10+ years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications development in product based companies or R&D divisions.

• Strong computer systems fundamentals, DS/Algorithms and problem solving skills

• 6+ years of experience building microservices using languages like JAVA/Golang/Python.

• Strong experience with  SQL /No-SQL and database technologies (MySQL, Mongo DB, Hbase, Cassandra, Oracle, Postgresql, Elastic)

• Proficient in systems design and distributed systems handling scalability, observability and fault tolerance.

• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills

• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS

• Exposure to build, CI/CD & deployment pipelines and related technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins etc

Additional Qualifications:

• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology 

• Exposure to large scale data platforms and experience with ETL pipelines.

• Experience with search engines

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