Staff Software Engineer

| New York City, NY | Hybrid
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Position Summary...
What you'll do...
If you thrive in solving challenging business problems with highly tangible business impact, love leading and growing with fabulous team members who just click, this is the place!
This is a technical and management role that brings together your past engineering design experiences, hands-on development skills and your abilities to build bonds with other developers, architects, product managers and engineering leaders to develop platforms and product that operate at Walmart-scale. You will design, develop, and lead by influence a world class group of engineers across the US that are bound by a common Walmart-wide theme of creating elegant solutions for the complex problems and enable customers to save more time and money, and live better - every single day.
You'll sweep us off our feet if...

  • You have 4 to 6 years of experience in developing large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment, with frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable
  • You possess a strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, team orientation, design thinking, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovation
  • You have an ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
  • You have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, including Java, Scala, NodeJS, Golang and/or Python
  • You are proficient with multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale services
  • You have experience in handling and triaging complex production issues
  • You have solid understanding of building and integrating with stream-based and as well as RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL
  • You have prior exposure to Azure, GCP, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL based cloud native databases and big data technologies
  • You innately apply SRE practices, including operational architectures, observability, reliability, availability, and scalability


You'll make an impact by:

  • Designing, developing, and implementing large-scale distributed systems that process large volume of data; focusing on scalability, latency, efficiency, and fault-tolerance in every system that you build
  • Taking ownership of a vaguely defined major business problem or product vision, translate it into executable technical design and roadmaps to solve the problem or realize the product vision
  • Demonstrating technical skills to go very deep in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverageable systems
  • Owning multiple components across distributed, and work with engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders to identify opportunities for business impact
  • Participating in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs
  • Being a role model for behaviors such as - being data intensive while taking everyday decisions, approach everyday problems with scientific temperament and rigor, having customer-first mind-set, maintaining highest standards for operational and engineering excellence
  • Coaching engineers by providing oversight and direction to various engineers working across different efforts
  • Raising the bar by improving the team's definition of best practices and architecture with deep domain knowledge


The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
Benefits & Perks:
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Our Team
The Walmart Emerging-Tech group is a new group charted to drive the creation of the next generation retail and shopping experiences for both online and in-store. The group leads Walmarts efforts in the areas of Conversational AI, Voice Assistants, Extended Reality and more. The groups focus is to explore and build prototypes of innovative shopping experiences and build platforms to enable scaling of these experiences.
As an example, the voice assistant team within this group has launched experiences like AskSam for associates and Walmart Voice Order for customers ( https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/building-a-conversational-assistant-platform-for-voice-enabled-shopping-6d174cdc4131 ). In addition to the end-user experiences the group also builds platform APIs and tools to enable other teams within Walmart to build and scale experiences using these next-generation technologies.
At Text-to-Shop, we show how we deliver on our promise of helping people save money and live better with conversational commerce. The experience far exceeds the expectation of text and chatbot services. We are building a seamless shopping experience to back our customers when they need it, which is human, personalized, and efficient.
Your responsibility

  • Lead and take the team to its next level
  • Build the most innovative shopping experience for online and in-store customers
  • Design and build services, platforms, and tools to scale creation of conversational shopping experiences across Walmart
  • Solve real customer problems and help hundreds of millions of Walmart customers to save money and live better.


Equal Opportunity Employer
Walmart, Inc. is 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.
Who We Are
Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com
About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world's largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.
We're virtual
Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting. Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We'll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 6 years' experience in software
engineering or related field.
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 or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering
Primary Location...
250 Hudson St, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1006, United States of America

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