Software Engineer III

Position Summary

The Software Engineer III on the Global Integrated Fulfillment (GIF) team at Walmart designs and builds scalable backend services that power critical in-store fulfillment workflows.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions and drive high-level design for small to large, complex engineering projects.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications and microservices that support critical fulfillment workflows.
• Build robust, high-performing distributed systems using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, and cloud-native patterns.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide actionable feedback to ensure engineering best practices, quality, and maintainability.
• Guide and support small groups of engineers, including offshore associates, across assigned projects.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive durable fixes to improve system stability and business continuity.
• Partner with business and product teams on operational support and data analysis related to solutions deployed in production.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness to identify and address issues before they impact business systems.
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge-sharing materials, updating content as products and platforms evolve.
• Support Walmart’s culture and values by maintaining high standards of integrity, compliance, and engineering excellence.

About The Team

The Global Integrated Fulfillment (GIF) team powers key in-store fulfillment capabilities that enable associates to process customer orders generated through Walmart’s eCommerce platforms. The team builds and maintains backend systems that support critical workflows including picking, storage, audit, and dispense, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience designing and building complex distributed systems using Java and Spring Boot microservices.
• Proven ability to quickly understand new domains, grasp system complexity, and turn requirements into well-structured technical solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architecture patterns in large-scale production systems.
• Expertise in building high-performance, highly available, and scalable backend services and APIs.
• Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture, RESTful services, asynchronous processing, and multi-threaded application design.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues, conducting root-cause analysis, and implementing long-term corrective actions.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure, and modern observability and monitoring tools such as OpenObserve, Grafana, Dynatrace, and MMS.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and business teams while mentoring junior engineers and driving execution.
• Prior experience in eCommerce or retail technology is a plus.

Additional Compensation

• Annual salary range: $90,000.00 - $180,000.00
• Performance-based bonus awards
• Other benefits include health benefits, financial benefits, paid time off, military leave pay, and more.

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor'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.
• Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters: Computer Science
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and joining us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location

1300 SE 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America