SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team

As a member of the Catalog Engineering team, you will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for building scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems that power how suppliers and sellers create, manage, and enrich catalog content across our global marketplace.

We are looking for a technically strong engineering leader who is passionate about building great products through exceptional teams. You will combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to drive engineering excellence, deliver business outcomes, and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing software engineers by providing regular feedback, career guidance, mentoring, and growth opportunities.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product, Program Management, Architecture, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business priorities into scalable technology solutions and execution plans.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding system architecture, design reviews, and engineering decisions for highly scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices across software design, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and production operations.
• Manage engineering planning, resource allocation, execution risks, and delivery commitments while balancing short-term priorities with long-term technical investments.
• Foster a strong engineering culture through technical mentoring, design discussions, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• Champion AI-assisted software development by encouraging the effective use of modern AI engineering tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate opportunities to improve platform architecture, engineering efficiency, and business outcomes.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing software development teams.
• Proven experience building, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams while fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture.
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• 6+ years of experience developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, performance, and cloud-native application design.
• Deep knowledge of Java, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Oracle, or Cosmos DB.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams while effectively balancing business priorities and engineering investments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with experience working across globally distributed teams.
• Experience leveraging AI-powered developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or similar platforms to improve engineering productivity.
• Experience driving engineering metrics and operational excellence, including DORA metrics, service reliability, quality, and developer productivity.

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 expert's 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

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal opportunity employer

Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 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...

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 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.

Primary Location...Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India