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 experts and service professionals within the world’s leading retailers 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 on a scale that impacts millions and reimagine the future of retail.
About the job
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Staff Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our enterprise systems and technology solutions in the International Technology Organization. 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 the 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 designs
- 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 like cloud, platform, analytics, etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.
What you'll bring
- 10+ 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
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 the location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
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.
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 responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.