Position: Software Engineer III
Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716
Duties: Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information; performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues; researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Requirement And Scoping Analysis: Prepare requirement traceability matrix and maintain traceability between business requirements, functional requirements, design, and test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements. Coding: To create/configure 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. Assist in the selection of appropriate languages, development standards and tools for software coding/configuration. Take initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work. Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD, Testing or any other process. Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: To map the customer requirements in to test objectives. Identify and create test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Execute different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: To track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application DevOps Orientation: To conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance and re-engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.
Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, business analytics, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, business analytics, or related field and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.
Skills Required: Must have experience with: Server-side development using Java, Python, Spring Framework & Apache technologies for scalable backend systems; RESTful & SOAP API design using Spring Boot, JAX-RS, microservices architecture & refactoring monolithic applications; Batch & streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka, asynchronous messaging with IBM MQ & ActiveMQ; Data modeling & optimization for relational databases (MS SQL Server, Azure SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (Cosmos DB, MongoDB); Cloud-based solutions using GCP services (BigQuery, GCS, Dataproc), ETL workflows & CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins & GitHub; Unit & integration testing with JUnit & Mockito, code quality via SonarQube, monitoring with Splunk, Grafana & Prometheus; Containerization & orchestration using Docker & Kubernetes for managing clusters, namespaces & multi-environment deployments; Infrastructure & application deployments across various environments with configuration management; Agile & Scrum methodologies, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment practices; AI-assisted tools & Python scripts for improving development efficiency, debugging accuracy & code analysis automation; Frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML & jQuery for user interfaces & cross-browser compatibility; Testing framework design for frontend & backend applications, version upgrades & backward compatibility management. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year
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.Skills Required
- Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, business analytics, or a related field
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, business analytics, or a related field
- Two years of experience in software engineering or related experience when qualifying with a bachelor's degree
- Server-side development using Java, Python, Spring Framework, and Apache technologies
- RESTful and SOAP API design using Spring Boot, JAX-RS, and microservices architecture
- Batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka and asynchronous messaging with IBM MQ and ActiveMQ
- Data modeling and optimization for relational and NoSQL databases
- Cloud-based solutions using GCP services, ETL workflows, and CI/CD pipelines
- Unit and integration testing with JUnit and Mockito
- Code quality, monitoring, containerization, and orchestration using SonarQube, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Infrastructure and application deployments across multiple environments with configuration management
- Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment practices
- Frontend development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and jQuery
- Testing framework design, version upgrades, and backward compatibility management
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