Senior Software Engineer

Position: Senior Software Engineer 

Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716 

Duties: Requirement And Scoping Analysis: Explores relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, that can address business/technical needs. Assesses gaps/updates/modifications between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Classifies the requirements into applicable types (For example - Functional/Non-Functional, Derived/Imposed/Emergent etc.). Anticipates the solution risks/issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contributes to the creation of user stories for component/application/complex (For agile methodology). Solution Design: Assists in design of solutions such that the processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product. Evaluates trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assists in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules/components of a product. Coding: Creates/configures minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the components are meeting business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Assists in the selection of appropriate languages (E.g. JavaScript, Python, C# etc.), development standards and tools (E.g. Monday.com, Linx, Embold etc.) for software coding/configuration. Takes initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work. Builds scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process (as applicable). Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensures security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: Maps the customer requirements in to test objectives. Identifies and creates test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Executes different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: Tracks and analyzes defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyzes defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoots performance and availability bottlenecks for the application. DevOps Orientation: Conducts complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluates the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) and re-engineering activities. Analyzes application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluates change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Program Monitoring: Ensures adherence to the project against approved milestones and timelines. 

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or related experience. 

Skills required: Must have experience with: designing and implementing RESTful APIs for front end consumption for web based and mobile applications; developing and implementing Jenkins build and deploying jobs for Java Bean and multi-maven projects onto ECS container and bare-metal servers; developing features such as LDAP authentication and single sign-on based mechanism for Spring Boot projects and migrating Spring Boot projects to the latest versions; migrating stateless applications running on bare-metal servers and ECS containers to EKS and instrumenting and procuring infra resources for application scaling based on user-traffic; implementing resource management for build artifacts by leveraging ECR registry service to maintain artifact version being deployed on webservers; utilizing light weight container service ECS through Docker container scripts to post artifact build; creating Shell scripts to automate installation of certs on webservers, DR activities, and recurring operational issues such as hung JVM threads due to long running DB transactions; creating YAML scripts to supply application configuration for creating Docker built artifacts to deploy on ECS containers (Jenkins build script and deployer script); working with Java 6, 8 and 11 with Spring and Spring Boot framework to develop Enterprise level applications for internal and external usage; utilizing Docker for containerizing web-apps to deploy across stand-alone and ECS containers; creating DB schemas for Relational data-mapping and leveraging Hibernate framework for object-oriented data models for Spring Boot application; orchestration platforms such as Concord and OneOps. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills. 

Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year.  Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.    

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.   

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

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.