Staff Software Engineer - Item Setup catalog

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

• Deliver low-latency backend distributed systems, software applications, and services on vertical categories to improve item searchability

• Apply agile methodologies, Spring framework, and open source to the full development cycle of analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintenance.

• Assists in providing guidance to small groups of 5 to 6 engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timeline.

• Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain.

• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation.

• Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.

• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.

• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

• Models' compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

About You

• Extensive understanding of microservice architecture and design, and best practices around multithreading, networking, offline storage and performance tuning

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of Java, Spring Boot, Akka Streams and experience working with distributed systems and teams.

• Experience with refactoring/redesigning/rewriting existing applications is a plus (We are in the process of redesigning and refactoring of our current system)

• Ability to build products with focus on testability, someone who loves test coverage (well versed with Mockito and JUnit)

• Solid fundamentals in Algorithms, Data Structures, Complexity Analysis and Object-Oriented Design

• Experience building high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems.

• Experience working on cloud native services

• Experience in Big Data application development using Spark

• Experience is high throughput - low latency api development.

• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.

• Experience in work in Agile environment to ensure quality, security, and maintenance of applications.

• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level and a passion for adopting the latest features in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.

• Troubleshoot production issues and solve within the SLA using tools like Splunk, ELK or similar tools.

• Direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing information.

You'll really wow us if...

• Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity.

• You come with leading a team of senior engineers and delivering applications to solve problems of scale.

• You come to the table with a comprehensive knowledge of JAVA & Big Data applications as well as Agile methodologies.

• You can contribute UI/UX side with understanding of framework such as ReactJS/Angular and you are hands on full stack.

• You have good sense of understand Item Setup Catalog

• You have ability to reach out to external stakeholder and solve a problem holistically by partnering with other application leads.

• You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within it new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.

• You level up when you can teach others and empower those around you to excel.

You'll make an impact by...

• Effectively translating requirements into project parameters while working with agility from cradle to grave.

• Helping cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a "best-in-class" customer experience.

• Encouraging the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes.

Skill Set Additions:

• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments.

• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.

• Have proficient knowledge and experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Solr, Elastic Search, SQL, cosmos, Akka Streams, Spring frameworks.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the following programming Languages: Java, Python, Bash, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop Map-Reduce experience. Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) experience.

• Experience with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP

• Solid devops skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux

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

• Experience with event driven architecture, Apache storm or Flume and Kafka

Preferred Location:

Preferred location Sunnyvale, CA.

About The Team

Walmart Omni Tech group is looking for Software Engineer to help build the next generation suite of applications to have impact on millions of users.

Benefits & Perks
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.

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 2.2 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.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 6 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.

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...
860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America