Senior, Software Engineer – Python, Gen AI Developer

About the Role

As part of Walmart's Global Sourcing Backend team, you will be building highly scalable and reliable APIs, services and applications which will drive the next generation purchase order management system. You'll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team, you'll be able to say that you work for the world's largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.

About Team

Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.

What You'll Do

• Lead by example a team of 3-4 members
• Show your chops as an exceptional and experienced developer
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales
• Identify short and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions, implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes
• Provide support to the business for new and existing systems by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of own domain
• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams when needed; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; and completing online documentation

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of experience building scalable applications
• Python: Utilize libraries to integrate a pre-trained Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model like or Gemini; develop a text pre-processing module to handle user input, cleaning and formatting text for optimal model performance; implement an API endpoint using a framework like Flask or Fast API to receive user prompts and send them to the Gen AI model; integrate a safety module to filter out potentially harmful or biased outputs from the model
• React: Build a user-friendly interface using React components where users can input writing prompts, choose desired writing styles (e.g., poem, script, news article), and adjust generation parameters; utilize React's state management libraries (Redux, Context API) to handle user interactions and display generated content dynamically; implement an attractive and intuitive UI that allows users to review and iterate on generated content
• API Gateway (Node.js): Serve as a communication layer between Python backend; utilize a framework like Express.js to build a lightweight API gateway for managing incoming requests and responses
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins and Maven
• Strong experience interfacing with Web Services platforms
• Strong expertise in development of scalable cloud native microservices
• Strong expertise in designing and building APIs
• Strong expertise with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP
• Strong Expertise in Java/Python, Design Patterns

Qualifications

Minimum: Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's 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.

Benefits

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance
• 401(k) match
• Stock purchase plan
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
• Multiple health plans including medical, vision and dental coverage
• Company-paid life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates (high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid)

Pay & Schedule

Annual salary range: $117,000.00 - $234,000.00

Additional compensation: Annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock

Work model: Hybrid — primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite

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