Senior, Software Engineer ((Partner Engineer, Solutions Engineer))

About the role

What you'll do...

What You'll Do

• Work directly with external developers, solution providers, and partners to guide them through integrating with the Walmart Marketplace API ecosystem
• Troubleshoot integration issues, debug API requests/responses, and provide hands-on technical guidance
• Provide architectural recommendations, best practices, and reference implementations to help partners build reliable, scalable integrations
• Optimize partner resource utilization (compute efficiency, rate limits, data usage, etc.) to ensure performant and cost-effective integration
• Develop tools, dashboards, and metrics to monitor integration health, API usage, error patterns, and adoption trends
• Identify systemic integration gaps and work with engineering and product teams to address them
• Build automation and diagnostics to proactively surface developer friction points or API contract inconsistencies
• Collaborate with Marketplace core engineering teams to design foundational systems, SDKs, and integration patterns that improve API adoption and developer experience
• Contribute to sample apps, libraries, documentation improvements, and developer tooling that streamline partner integration
• Partner with product managers to shape API capabilities, onboarding flows, and developer-facing features
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure partner needs, Marketplace goals, and platform capabilities are aligned
• Advocate for the partner/developer voice across the organization and help prioritize initiatives that reduce friction and improve satisfaction

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, partner engineering, solutions engineering, or developer relations
• Strong hands-on coding skills with proficiency in Java, NodeJS, Rust, or similar backend development languages
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication/authorization flows, and distributed system fundamentals
• Experience debugging complex integration issues involving API gateways, backend services, or data pipelines
• Ability to translate technical details into clear guidance for external developers with varying levels of expertise
• Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling
• Strong product mindset and ability to evaluate tradeoffs between engineering needs, developer experience, and business outcomes

Benefits

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
• 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.