Job Description

Staff Software Engineer

Career Level: IN 5

Location: Bangalore

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:

Retail and Emerging Tech: This is the team which builds reusable technologies that aid in acquiring customers, onboarding and empowering merchants besides ensuring a seamless experience for both these stakeholders. They also optimize tariffs and assortment, adhering to the Walmart philosophy - Everyday Low Cost. In addition to ushering in affordability, they also create personalized experiences for customers the omnichannel way, across all channels - in-store, on the mobile app and websites.

Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of large-scale data systems operating at petabytes scale. Team FMS - Fulfilment Management System is responsible for the fulfilment order lifecycle management which involves enriching the order and publishing it to downstream shipNodes. This involves 20+ services which are kafka event driven and are on Azure cloud using cosmos and ES for data store.

Position Responsibilities:

• Through this role you have an opportunity to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the customer and the company.
• You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.
• You will be expected to solve some of the most complex design and technical challenges for delivering customer service.
• In this role it would be important for you to professionally maintain all codes and create updates regularly to address the customer's and company's concerns
• You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance
• Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently will offer you a chance to grow your skills in a high-pace, high-impact environment.
• Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work
• You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.
• You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications

Position Requirements:

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Minimum 8+ years of object-oriented programming experience in Java.
• 4+ years of experience in building of large scale data pipelines using big data technologies (i.e. Spark/Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop/Hive/Presto/Airflow).
• 4+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.

Additional Qualifications:

• Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS
• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

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.