Walmart

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart$286K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related area + 2 years experience, OR Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience in software engineering.
  • Leadership experience guiding a team to deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across teams including product owners, marketing, and engineering.
  • Strong knowledge of software quality engineering, automated testing, and production support.
  • Experience with frontend technologies such as React and Java, and backend integration using REST.

Responsibilities

  • Explore existing product solutions to meet business needs.
  • Assess and address gaps between current offerings and business expectations.
  • Contribute to user story creation and assist in design solutions for applications.
  • Lead the conversion from high-level design to detailed design with coding standards.
  • Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues independently.
  • Conduct various testing types and track defects throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Ensure adherence to CI/CD processes and create architectural specifications for product components.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, vision, and dental.
  • 401(k) plan with company contribution, stock purchase options, and life insurance.
  • Generous paid time off policy including parental and family care leave.
  • Education assistance covering 100% of company-paid college degrees.
  • Additional benefits including disability coverage and company discounts.
Full Job Description
Position: Senior Manager Software Engineering

Job Location: 10900 NE 4th Street, Floor 8, Bellevue, WA 98004

Duties: Explore relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, that can address business/technical needs. Assess gaps/ updates/ modifications between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Classify the requirements into applicable types (For example - Functional/Non-Functional, Derived/Imposed/Emergent etc.). Anticipate the solution risks / issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/application/complex (For agile methodology). Assist in design of solutions such that the processes / applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist 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. 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 (E.g. JavaScript, Python, C# etc.), development standards and tools (E.g. Monday.com, Linx, Embold etc.) 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 (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process (as applicable). Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. 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. 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. Conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) 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. Monitor and evaluate the progress of the projects against approved milestones and timelines. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues/risks, and key dependencies. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholder for creation of project plans. Ensure adherence to the CICD process as per identified schedule. Assist in decomposing the product architecture into multiple components and modules and define architectural specifications for each module. Create/Apply the right architectural pattern across the module as indicated in the architectural plan to obtain the right result. Define the architecture blueprint for the various components within a product/solution. Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security. This role supervises 11 associates: (5) Software Engineer IIIs; (2) Quality Engineer IIIs; (3) Senior Software Engineers; (1) Staff Software Engineer.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 5 years of experience in software engineering or related area.

Skills required: Experience providing guidance and leading a team of engineers to build quality software solutions. Experience owning the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with multi-functional/geography teams, product owners, engineers, marketing and sales. Experience ensuring Software Quality Engineering by keeping the engineers up to date on best practices, automated code testing, alerts, reporting, and taking a proactive approach to production support. Experience building frontend applications using technologies including React, JavaScript, and Java. Experience integrating with scalable back-end services (REST). Experience in functional, integration and E2E (End 2 End) testing tools and practices. Experience in software quality and operational excellence practices. Experience building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules. Experience developing applications on a cloud platform (AWS). Experience running performance tests for the application to ensure they are performant under load and can scale well. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $286,270/year to $286,270/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.

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2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
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Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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