Senior, Software Engineer - Backend - Data Ventures

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Our organization focuses on managing and delivering world-class data assets, including creating and maintaining data standards, driving policy compliance, creating partnerships, and developing pipelines and self-service tools. We empower our business to leverage data to fuel growth, driving revenue in our core and building new business model opportunities. MUST HAVE: Java, SpringBoot, Microservices, Cloud Technologies, Kafka, MySQL.

Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart's data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we're seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment.

What You'll Do:

Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing and developing code, conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders. Collaborate with project team and cross-functional teams. Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan. Model compliance with company policies, procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans. Create training documentation. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions. Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components. Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications. Design and optimize databases using SQL and NoSQL technologies for data storage and retrieval. Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and ensure seamless integration with other systems. Work with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure to build scalable and secure applications. Utilize the ELK stack for log analysis and monitoring of system performance. Develop and optimize queries using Big Query to analyze large datasets. Collaborate with the team to perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure high-quality code delivery. Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred. 5+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems. A good understanding of Java and Microservices. Hands on experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc). Should be hands on writing/reviewing design & code. Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins. Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines is desirable. Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies. Mentoring/coaching Senior staff engineers and other Engineers. Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development. Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

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. Flexible, hybrid work: We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

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. 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.