(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Join Walmart as Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Cloud Powered Checkout, and your work could help over 240 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

Walmart’s Transactional System provides core transactional systems to enable segment and technology partners in creating wonderful omni experiences with speed and leverage. We are a highly motivated group of engineers, working in an agile group to solve sophisticated and high impact problems. This role is part of Cloud Powered Checkout team and will build the next generation multi-tenant, client agnostic, highly scalable, omni channel checkout solution to seamlessly enable a frictionless customer checkout experience across all sales channels globally. We process millions of orders daily through our high-performance checkout services running in Edge and Cloud.Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

• You will be responsible for the hands-on leading and directing of end-to-end project initiatives and teams in tactical and strategic capacities. You will join a very high-performing team seeking those challenging us to become even better.
• You and your team will be deeply involved in many executive and cross-functional business initiatives. At the same time, you'll be responsible to drive your bottom-up product and tech roadmap and grow the team.
• You will be deeply involved in building the strategy and roadmap execution for various initiatives. This is the ideal platform for a capable engineering leader to drive engineering excellence and culture.
• You will be Leading multiple cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives and deliver high-quality products and solutions along with providing strategic direction, guidance, and help the engineers grow and develop in their roles, providing mentorship, coaching, and training opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.
• You will be involved in the requirement and scoping analysis process for the evaluation of requirements or updates for alignment with business objectives and managing conflicting requirements from various stakeholders. The process also entails anticipating solution risks or issues during the requirement gathering phase and recommending corrective steps.
• You will be responsible for program Monitoring for providing support to stakeholders to ensure adherence to program performance metrics and taking corrective measures when necessary.
• Your two key focus should be on Defect Management and Troubleshooting for conducting root cause analysis to identify and prevent recurring defects, tracking registered issues for resolution, and enhancing the application's functionality and security after defects have been fixed.
• Your daily job duties include DevOps Orientation which requires defining metrics for application performance monitoring, leading application maintenance, and re-engineering plans. It also includes driving application changes, leading problem identification, and conducting technical impact analysis of maintenance activities. The process also involves executing multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs and developing contingency plans.

• 10+ years of relevant experience with 2+ years of experience managing high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced environment.
• Leading large-scale systems in fast-paced environments, experience in hiring and mentoring world-class engineering teams.
• Experience working with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.
• Passionate about reviewing code, familiarity with Automation Tools and strong customer focus and obsession with quality.
• Proficiency in back-end technologies and experience in developing APIs using Java, Spring Boot.
• 4+ years of experience in building and managing large scale distributed, scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Java or another object-oriented language, Spring, No SQL, Kafka Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management.
• Passion for staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies, with a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.