Wal-Mart
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Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Location
(USA) BELLEVUE SKYLINE OFFICE WA BELLEVUE Hom…
Listed
2 days ago

What you'll do

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the execution and evolution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple engineering teams. This role owns delivery, architecture, operational excellence, and technical strategy for highly available distributed systems while ensuring alignment with business priorities and roadmap commitments.

  • The leader drives cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, observability, cost optimization, and payment-platform resiliency while guiding architectural decisions and engineering standards.
  • The role also develops engineering talent, manages cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and ensures payment solutions meet scalability, security, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations in a complex, regulated transaction environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead platform-level execution for highly available, distributed payment systems aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
  • Drive architecture for payment processing, transaction routing, authorization, retries, reversals, fallback, and resiliency.
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness across multiple teams.
  • Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives while meeting compliance and certification requirements.
  • Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
  • Mentor engineers, strengthen technical ownership, lead operational improvements, and establish metrics for availability, transaction success, latency, recovery, and platform health.

What you'll bring

  • Proven engineering leadership experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments, fintech, retail, or transaction-intensive environments.
  • Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, capture, reversal, refund, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
  • Experience with payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS.
  • Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, manage production incidents, optimize cloud costs, mentor engineers, and enforce security and quality standards.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across product, business, compliance, security, operations, and external payment partners in complex, regulated environments.platforms across multiple engineering teams.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, 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.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
  • Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
  • Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
  • 2 years' supervisory experience.

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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location

10900 Ne 4th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America

About the team

The UPP Payments team builds and operates a scalable, fault-tolerant payments platform that supports enterprise transaction processing. The team works across cloud-native architecture, payment routing, resiliency, certification, security, and observability to deliver reliable payment experiences at scale.

Engineers design intelligent routing, failover, and recovery capabilities that maintain stability during peak traffic and downstream disruptions. The team values strong technical ownership, engineering rigor, operational excellence, and continuous improvement while partnering across product, business, security, and payment ecosystems to expand platform capabilities across markets and support evolving business priorities.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.

People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career.

Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Read the original posting

From Wal-Mart's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 8, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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