Why you should apply for a job with Walmart:
- 54%of reviewers say women and men are treated equally at Walmart.
All eligible associates have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%.- The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work.
- Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service.
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Introduction
We are looking for a Backend Engineer, who will be responsible for improving our merchandise picking system within our Walmart Stores. If you are looking to work on a highly scalable and resilient Kafka Streaming application, look no further.
Walmart Technology
We employ big data at scale -- from machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms, to modeling and analyzing massive flows of data from online, social, mobile, and offline commerce. We don't just engineer cool websites, mobile apps, and new services; we use our own open source tools to create the framework. Deployment is automated and accelerated through our open cloud platform. This makes us incredibly nimble and able to adjust in real-time to our global customers.
Walmart's Global Cloud Platform team helps thousands of developers save time and code better, so that millions of Walmart associates can help hundreds of millions of customers save money and live better. We sustain millions of transactions per second, process petabytes of data, and enable tens of thousands of production deployments per day. We simplify the complexities of scale and unify software development for all aspects of the business, digital and physical.
You'll sweep us off our feet if you.. :
BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
5+ years of software development (Java is preferable)
Being independent thinker and problem solver
Experience with being a core contributor to a software project: understanding domain and business requirements, being responsible for critical parts of application
Solid skills in java stack (Spring, Maven, JaxRs, Hibernate)
Solid experience with web services (REST APIs, understanding idempotency, HTTP methods and response codes)
Experience with using Linux command line tools
Experience using source control systems (git)
Experience with working with CI/CD (Jenkins/Travis)
Experience with working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc)
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (MSSLQ, Cassandra, Couchbase)
Experience working with message stream systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience working in agile environment (Scrum, daily standups etc)
Additional qualifications that are a plus:
Understanding micro-service architecture and domain driven approach
Experience of delivering and supporting a large scale production system
Experience working with logging and application monitoring stack: Splunk, Grafana etc
Experience working with docker containers and container orchestration basics (Docker, Kubernetes/Docker Swarm)
Some level of experience with UI - being able to understand UI tech stack, needs and limitations
Good communication skills, working in multi-team projects
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Masters: Computer Science
Need convincing? Let's review Walmart's best features:
- 54%of reviewers say women and men are treated equally at Walmart.
- All eligible associates have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%.
- The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work.
- Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service.