Senior Software Engineer

Position

Job Location: 811 Excellence Drive, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties

• Application and Feature Delivery: Owns scoped feature or model delivery through collaborative engineering teams.
• Manages implementation, iteration, testing, and ongoing support for assigned services, APIs, user interfaces, or ML model components.
• Operates with a product-driven mindset and aligns outcomes with broader platform, system, and domain objectives.

Software Development and Lifecycle Execution: Writes clean, efficient, and reliable code using languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Dart, and C++. Drives full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD deployments, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and maintenance. Builds scripts for the automation of repetitive tasks and implements telemetry features independently.

• Conducts code structure reviews and supports ongoing defect management and debugging processes.
• AI/ML Integration and GenAI Enablement: Integrates AI agents and ML components using internal and external APIs to enhance software intelligence.
• Leverages GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve development velocity and innovation.

• Applies object-oriented programming principles and documentation-based coding practices to ensure modularity, maintainability, and consistency.
• Solution Design and Technical Leadership: Assists in converting high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudo code, Sand functional logic.
• Evaluates trade-offs and designs scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems aligned with Walmart's standards.

• Participates in design reviews and ensures the implementation of appropriate design patterns and principles.
• Demonstrates continuous learning and supports peer growth through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Customer/Associate Problem Definition and Metrics: Engages stakeholders to identify and refine complex business or user problems.

• Translates pain points into actionable technical requirements and defines clear metrics to measure solution success and impact.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivered solutions meet user needs and technical expectations.
• DevOps and Program Monitoring: Conducts complex maintenance procedures and monitors application performance using appropriate metrics and tools.

• Ensures adherence to project milestones and timelines through program reporting, CI/CD tools, and program logging systems.
• Supports the delivery of high-quality and reliable software systems through proactive monitoring, testing, and continuous integration practices.
• Engineering Excellence: Promotes a collaborative engineering mindset focused on continuous improvement and team wellbeing.

• Contributes to innovation strategies, internal knowledge sharing, and platform enhancement through engineering best practices.
• Supports system uptime, performance, and customer experience by owning the quality and performance of delivered features.
• Technical Ownership: Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives.

Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion. Technical Judgment: Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals. Change Agility: Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context.

• Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products.

Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement.

Minimum education and experience required

Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering and 3 years of experience in software engineering or related area.

Skills Required: Must have experience with: designing and implementing Java and Spring back-end applications with REST APIs; designing and testing Relational and Non-Relational Database Management Systems (MySQL, SQL Server, and Mongo DB); writing and developing code and conducting unit testing using JUnit; troubleshooting issues and bug-fixes; automating CI/CD workflow using Jenkins and GitHub; deploying pipelines using Cloud technologies (Azure and AWS); software design patterns and distributed computing; utilizing software development practices such as Git, JIRA, and Scrum; implementing scripts to design dashboards and perform data manipulation on Azure Databricks; implementing ETL tool as part of data transformation such as Azure Data Factory; scaling applications using load balancing, multi region data centers and Traffic Managers (Azure App services, API Management and Docker); utilizing Redis strategies to store high-volume static API response onto disk stores to improve performance; scraping application logs to Azure Application insight and setting up monitoring dashboards and alerts using Slack and email.

• Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
• Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting.

Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

• Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.
• Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
• For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.