(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About the role

As a Senior Engineering Manager for Discovery E2E, you will lead a team of talented engineers responsible for building and evolving end-to-end customer experiences. You will combine strong technical leadership with people leadership, execution excellence, and cross-functional partnership to deliver highly available, performant, and scalable products while developing a high-performing engineering organization.

About the team

The Discovery E2E Engineering team at Walmart Global Tech creates innovative shopping experiences that guide millions of customers from inspiration to product selection. This team develops scalable, intelligent discovery solutions across web, mobile, and orchestration platforms, focusing on Home, Search, Item Page, Browse, and Category experiences. This role will have a particular focus on building and evolving Marketplace experiences across these Discovery surfaces, helping customers seamlessly discover and engage with Walmart Marketplace assortment.

Comprising Engineering, Product Management, UX, Business, Data Science, and Analytics professionals, the team rapidly iterates using experimentation and customer insights. Their work integrates AI-powered personalization and rich content to enhance engagement and effectiveness, delivering seamless, intuitive shopping journeys at Walmart’s scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team delivering end-to-end Marketplace experiences across Discovery surfaces, spanning web, mobile, and orchestration platforms.
• Drive architecture, execution, scalability, reliability, and engineering excellence for large-scale customer-facing products.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Analytics, and Business to define strategy, roadmaps, and differentiated shopping experiences.
• Champion experimentation, observability, CI/CD, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term corrective actions for complex production issues.
• Build a culture of belonging, integrity, ownership, innovation, collaboration, talent development, and strong execution.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and developing software engineering teams delivering large-scale customer-facing products.
• Strong technical depth in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, orchestration, scalability, reliability, and system design.
• Experience with web, mobile, and orchestration platforms and modern engineering practices including CI/CD and observability.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making skills.
• AI-native mindset with a passion for exceptional customer experiences.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’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.
• 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.

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.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with performance-based bonus awards.
• 401(k) match and stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• Paid time off (PTO), including sick leave, holidays, and other purposes.
• Multiple health plans (medical, vision, dental).
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

Pay

Annual salary ranges:

• Sunnyvale, California: $143,000.00 - $286,000.00
• Bentonville, Arkansas: $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for certain positions.

Locations

Primary location: 1395 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America.