Position Summary...What you'll do...Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.This is a full-time, onsite role at our Bentonville, AR office. This position is not eligible for remote work. As
Senior Software Engineer will lead the delivery of scoped features and models through collaborative teams, ensuring alignment with platform and business objectives. This role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions using multiple programming languages and modern development practices. The engineer will integrate AI/ML components, drive continuous improvement, and provide technical leadership while collaborating across functions to address complex challenges. A strong focus on code quality, system performance, and innovation is essential to support Walmart's commitment to reliable, scalable, and customer-centric technology solutions.
What you'll do: - Own delivery of scoped features and models through collaborative engineering teams, ensuring alignment with platform and system objectives.
- Write clean, efficient, and reliable code across multiple languages, driving full software development lifecycle including CI/CD and automated testing.
- Integrate AI/ML components and leverage generative AI tools to enhance software intelligence and development efficiency.
- Participate in solution design, conduct code reviews, and apply object-oriented programming and documentation-based coding practices.
- Monitor application performance, support defect management, and ensure high-quality, maintainable software systems.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into technical requirements and measurable outcomes.
- Mentor peers, promote engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement and innovation.
What you'll bring: - Experience with Java (Full Stack) and Spring Boot microservices development
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark for large-scale batch and streaming data processing
- Experience building and operating Apache Kafka event-driven architectures
- Solid understanding of distributed NoSQL databases - Cassandra and/or Cosmos DB
- Experience developing and deploying solutions on GCP (BigQuery, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, or equivalent)
- Expereince in writing clean, testable, production-quality code with CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge with grasp of distributed systems concepts - CAP theorem, consistency models, fault tolerance
- Experience with WCNP / Kubernetes container deployments
- Familiarity with data quality frameworks or catalog/item data domains
- Knowledge of Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns
- Exposure to dbt, Airflow, or Dataflow for pipeline orchestration
- Experience in a high-scale e-commerce or retail tech environment
- Extensive experience in platform engineering leadership, delivering scalable, cloud-native architectures and reusable tooling.
- Proven ability to drive full software development lifecycle including coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, and incident response.
- Expereince in AI/ML integration and building intelligent software systems using languages such as Python, Java, and C++.
- Skilled in technical solution design, model-driven design, and applying engineering design processes.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and influencing architectural decisions for maintainability and interoperability.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Effective collaboration and communication across cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
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 duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
Benefits and Perks:Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great benefits include a 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, flexible working hours, and more.
We are reimagining the tech workplace by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. Well collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.
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, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area., 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.
Primary Location...1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
