(USA) Senior, Software Engineer
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, you will lead the delivery of scalable, secure software solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will drive the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, and deployment, while integrating advanced AI and machine learning components. This role requires strong technical judgment, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving to meet business objectives. You will mentor peers, contribute to innovation, and ensure high-quality outcomes that enhance platform performance and customer experience within a dynamic and evolving technology environment.
What you'll do
- Own delivery of scoped features or models through collaboration with engineering teams, managing implementation, iteration, testing, and support.
- Write clean, efficient, and reliable code across multiple languages, driving full software development lifecycle including CI/CD and automated testing.
- Integrate AI/ML components and leverage generative AI tools to enhance software capabilities and development efficiency.
- Assist in translating high-level designs into detailed technical solutions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Conduct code reviews, debugging, and defect management to maintain software quality and performance.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and success metrics aligned with business goals.
- Monitor application performance and support continuous improvement
- Design and Implement highly scalable backend services
About the team
The team works closely with Walmart U.S. Stores and eCommerce to enhance customer experiences by delivering innovative technology solutions. We support associates, stores, and merchants across various product categories, including groceries, entertainment, sporting goods, and crafts. Focus areas include optimizing supply chain efficiency, improving customer experience, enabling store operations, enhancing in-store services, and advancing merchant tools and data science. Through advanced software development and continuous improvement, the team delivers impactful solutions that uphold Walmart’s commitment to quality, reliability, and value across all shopping channels.
What you'll bring
- Extensive experience in software development with proficiency in languages such as Java (Preferred) Scala, Python
- Strong expertise in object-oriented programming, code review, debugging, and documentation-based coding practices
- Prominent ability to deliver scoped features and models through collaborative, iterative development and continuous integration
- Demonstrated skills in AI/ML integration and leveraging generative AI tools to enhance development efficiency
- Solid understanding of platform design, product strategy, and technical leadership in scalable, secure software solutions
- Effective problem-solving skills with a focus on quality, performance, and customer-centric outcomes
- Ability to bring insight out of data
- Experience mentoring peers and fostering continuous learning within engineering teams
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 with primary in-office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits
- Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great perks
- Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
- Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
- Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
- 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.