Staff, Software Engineer - Member Personalization

Sam's Club Tech – Advertising Tech(MAP)

Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivaled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services.

This engineer will partner with WMT platforms to add capabilities to support leveraging WMT marketing tools to reduce dependencies on external partners. This supports in house Epsilon support, Artemis migration as well as working features to support personalization. This is a key role to work with 4-5 Sam's team and 4-5 WMT teams in order to deliver. They will own the Audience Builder product which holds all marketing and personalization audiences. Supports external marketing partners and internal.

Sam's Club Tech – Advertising Tech(MAP) team focuses on:

• Consolidate and standardize all connections to external systems and programmatic exchanges.
• Provide a unified create/read/update/delete API for operations across all of the third-party systems
• Provide a normalized view of campaigns and metrics from these different sources for other systems to use.
• Generate insights and reports for advertiser campaigns in both real-time and batch mode.
• Collect and aggregate ad delivery metrics (real-time impression, viewability etc.).
• Partner with DS to build and enhance sales lift methodologies, including synthetic control, ghost ads etc.
• Build and operate a data warehouse for analytics and business operations.
• Expose all reports via reporting APIs and data tables.
• Collaborate with engineering and infra teams to build a ML and experimentation platform.
• Ownership of ML models for audience targeting. Build and improve relevance and ranking models for ad serving.
• Ownership of lift measurement methodology, and support enhancement of attribution models and buyer analytics.

What you'll do:

• Assists in providing guidance to a large group of 8 to 10 engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects.
• Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues.
• Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information.
• Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design.
• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor of Science and 8 years' experience or Master of Science with 6 years' experience in software engineering.
• 6+ years of experience in software development, focusing on distributed systems.
• Strong back-end development experience developing in Java/Scala/Python.
• Spring Boot development (5+ years within enterprise environment).
• Have proficient knowledge and experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Solr, Elastic Search, SQL, cosmos, Spring frameworks and databases like Postgres or a comparable database.
• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments (Azure & GCP) and Cloud deployments.
• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.
• Preferred experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Basic familiarity with continuous integration tools and frameworks like Jenkins, etc.
• Experience in production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.).
• Program metrics; Program Reporting, logging tools and processes; Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CICD)
• Defect life-cycle process, defect tracking tools and methodologies; Defect reporting; Regression testing; Root cause analysis; Root cause corrective action.
• Strong knowledge on Automated Testing Frameworks.
• Strong DevOps Orientation

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 experts 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.

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.

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.