SENIOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEER at Walmart Global Tech India

About the job

About The Team

You will be an integral part of the Global Technology Platforms (GTP) team at IDC, where you will play a key role in building, enhancing, and maintaining platforms that empower Walmart’s developer community. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing new features, ensuring platform reliability, and driving product stability to meet the evolving needs of our engineers. By focusing on scalability, performance, and intuitive user experiences, you will directly contribute to improving developer productivity and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless solutions, proactively resolve issues, and continuously optimize workflows. Ultimately, your work will have a direct impact on shaping the productivity tools and developer experience at Walmart, enabling thousands of engineers to innovate faster and deliver high-quality solutions to millions of customers.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for Design, build, test and deploy software for distributed microservices with specific business logic to production with continuous integration frameworks and event driven frameworks.

Develop and deploy software tools, programs, and metric monitoring processes to address production issues and operational costs.

Communication is also key as you will need to work closely with product owners, designers, and other engineers.

Act as a product-focused Full Stack Engineer, experimenting with new ideas and delivering engaging platform capabilities.

Perform root cause analysis to solve business-critical problems and identify opportunities for improvement.

Build scalable, highly available distributed systems using modern technologies and frameworks.

Design and implement RESTful services and platform APIs with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.

Collaborate and share expertise with the global Walmart tech community to influence and strengthen platform engineering.

Provide production support, troubleshooting, and resolution for live systems to ensure high availability.

What You’ll bring:

5-9 years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and platform development.

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

Strong expertise in Java and deep understanding of JVM internals (concurrency, multithreading).

Proficiency in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JAX-RS with solid design and coding skills.

Frontend development skills in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, React, Redux, Webpack, Node.js, React Native

Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, database concepts, and SQL.

Hands-on experience implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and RESTful Web Services.

Proven ability to build and manage cloud-based applications.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting tools.

Experience with storage and messaging technologies such as Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Python

Exposure to production support activities, including issue triage, troubleshooting, and resolution.

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.

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 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 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 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, 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.