Software Engineer II, Backend id-1031

What you'll do...

As a Software Engineer II, you will set the tone of engineering-excellence and drive processes and standards within the team. You will lead the design of complex software changes and take on the development of exciting new features. In addition, you will partner with your senior and junior teammates throughout the software development lifecycle to cultivate a reciprocal learning environment from development to debugging and operational excellence.


About Team: The Customer Care Back End team
The Customer Care Back End team is looking for a Software Engineer II to join the team and harmonize with the existing enthusiastic and talented associates to deliver a great site experience that scales to billions of queries for millions of products. This collaborative team is made up of engineering, UX, and product management, and is rapidly iterating new products and site features using industry standard open-source technologies like Java, React, NextJS, Fastify, GraphQL, Kubernetes and Typescript. We deliver high performing solutions on our brand-new platform based on the technologies mentioned above. Continuous innovation and immediate feedback from over new business customers make this work incredibly exciting!

What you'll do:

  • Provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide projects.
  • Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
  • Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
  • Work with Walmart’s Platform community to drive improvement to the overall foundation on which Walmart.com stands.
  • Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality and efficiency.
  • Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development, product and business teams.
  • Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability.
  • Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
  • Monitor the health of web pages, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
  • Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.


What you'll bring:

  • 1+ years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive backend applications.
  • 1+ years of Experience with Java/C++ or Python and their ecosystems.
  • Proven ability in building large scale backend applications
  • Experience operating software running on a containerized platform (Docker, Kubernetes, etc..)
  • Experience in continuous integration and delivery.
  • Experience with unit testing and functional automation frameworks
  • Experience with engineering best practices, including use of design patterns, and code reviews.
  • Ability to create prototypes from ideas and mockups from wire frames.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively in both independent and team environments.
  • Good understanding of version control systems, preferably GIT.
  • Experience with Agile methodology is a plus.


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:
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 location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.


Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

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.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
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