Staff, Software Engineer - Android/IOS

What you'll do

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with strong engineering fundamentals, mobile experience, and a full-stack mindset. This role is not limited to mobile frontend work.

As AI-powered development becomes part of our engineering workflow, we expect engineers to use AI tools effectively to understand unfamiliar codebases, contribute across platforms, improve productivity, and deliver high-quality software across mobile, backend, and web experiences. The ideal candidate has strong problem-solving skills, understands core software design concepts, and is eager to learn new technologies.

Experience with iOS or Android, backend services, APIs, and AI-assisted development is highly valuable.

What you'll do

• Build high-quality customer experiences across mobile, backend, and web platforms.
• Use AI-powered developer tools to understand unfamiliar areas, accelerate delivery, improve testing, and raise code quality.
• Contribute beyond mobile frontend by working on backend services, APIs, Order Lifecycle workflows, and web frontend when needed
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals to solve problems across the full product stack.
• Deliver scalable features for shopping, account management, orders, payments, tax-exempt, and store workflows.
• Partner with Product, UX, platform, AI, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Participate in technical design, code reviews, observability, experimentation, and production support.

What you'll bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, data structures, API integration, testing, debugging, and production-quality delivery.
• Hands-on mobile development experience, preferably with Android, Kotlin, Jetpack, app architecture, performance, and testing.
• Ability to use AI-powered developer tools to understand codebases, accelerate development, improve quality, and contribute across unfamiliar platforms.
• Willingness to work beyond mobile frontend, including backend services, APIs, Order Lifecycle systems, and web frontend when needed.
• Familiarity with AI concepts such as LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and agentic workflows is a plus.
• Strong ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and ability to learn quickly.

Pay and benefits

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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.

The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include

• Stock

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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

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 2 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

1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America