Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Staff Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our enterprise systems and technology solutions. The role involves driving business plans and projects by identifying customer needs, developing business priorities, removing obstacles, allocating resources, setting performance standards, and ensuring continuous learning. The Staff Engineer will supervise and develop associates through training, mentoring, team-building, performance evaluations, and coaching. They will also promote company policies and values, ensure compliance, support the Open Door Policy, and evaluate the effectiveness of current plans and initiatives while engaging with stakeholders and community outreach.

About Team

The platforms you build will create Walmart’s OMNI pricing system for eCommerce and store channels across multiple countries, each being a multi-billion dollar market. You will tackle complex business problems spanning multiple countries, users, and data. This team supports Walmart's global store and eCommerce operations in markets like the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Central America. The pricing platform focuses on setting EDLP for stores and the lowest prices for eCommerce among competitors.

What you'll do:

• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities, and deliver awesome products
• Work closely with Distinguished & Principal Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost, and Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines
• Participate in hiring and building teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams
• You will work with engineering teams to create high-level and low-level designs and drive design
• You will come up with quality, best practices, and other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them with overall technical and design aspects
• You will help implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross cross-functional engineering teams as cloud, platform, analytics, etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.

What you'll bring:

• 13+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly for multi-tenant, SaaS products.
• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practices by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Having proficiency in Java/J2EE, Microservices, and Cloud Native Architecture.
• Hands-on experience in Microservices, and RESTful web services development in Java SpringBoot, Spring Kafka or equivalent framework).
•  Good knowledge of messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture, and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc. ) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc. )
• Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms.
• Self-starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for the development and design of at least one cloud-based project.
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns, and configuration tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

About Global Tech

Imagine working where one line of code can improve life for millions. At Walmart Global Tech, our 15,000+ team of software engineers, data scientists, and service professionals deliver innovations to enhance shopping experiences and empower 2.3 million associates. Our focus is on people - they drive and benefit from our innovations. We are human-led and tech-empowered, training our team in future skills and bringing in experts like you. Whether you're starting your tech career or looking for career-defining opportunities, you can gain skills, impact millions, and reimagine retail with us.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

At Walmart, 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.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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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.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’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, 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.

Primary Location...

805 Se Moberly Ln, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.