Senior Software Engineer

Walmart Canada

• $150K — $234K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in computer science or related field with 1 year of software engineering experience, or Bachelor's with 3 years of experience.
  • Proficiency in backend development using Java, J2EE, Python, and LLM frameworks.
  • Experience with code management and release processes across multiple environments.
  • Ability to work in Agile settings and collaborate closely with project teams.
  • Familiarity with full software development life cycle methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Assess software gaps and necessary updates to align customer needs with the software product.
  • Classify requirements and anticipate solution risks during the requirements gathering phase.
  • Contribute to user story creation for applications and complex software components.
  • Design software solutions that ensure seamless operation of specific product modules.
  • Create detailed designs from high-level concepts using mock screens and functional logic.
  • Write and configure minimalistic code that meets business and technical requirements.
  • Build automation scripts to streamline CI/CD processes and execute diverse testing methods.

Benefits

  • Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) plan, stock purchase options, and company-paid life insurance.
  • Generous paid time off policies including sick leave and parental leave.
  • Education assistance with full funding for company-paid college degrees.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Company discounts and support for military service members and adoption expenses.
Full Job Description
What you'll do...

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089

Duties: Assess software gaps, updates, and modifications between the customer and business expectations and the existing software product and solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Classify the requirements into applicable types. Anticipate the solution risks and issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contribute to the creation of user stories for software components, applications, or complex. Assist in design of software solutions such that the processes and software applications work in tandem for specific software components and 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 designs using mock screens, pseudo codes, and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules and components of a product. Create and configure minimalistic software code for entire the software component or software application and ensure the components are meeting business and technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintenance, high-availability, and high-scalability needs. Assist in the selection of appropriate languages and software development standards and tools for software coding and 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. Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to software components and applications during code development and configuration. Map the customer requirements into test objectives. Identify and create test cases for the component or 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 or module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past software engineering 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, and performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 1 year of experience in software engineering or related area; OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years of experience in software engineering or related area.

Skills Required: Experience designing and developing backend applications by utilizing Java, J2EE, Python, and LLM frameworks for development of optimal and maintainable software solutions. Experience managing code and configurations for multiple environments, handling release management process, and creating and maintaining environment configuration, controls and code integrity. Experience working closely with a team analyzing business requirements, storyboards and similar artifacts of the scrum process. Experience working in an Agile development environment. Experience following approved life cycle methodologies, creating design documents and performing program coding, prompt engineering and testing. Experience resolving technical issues through debugging, AI developer IDE plugins, research and investigation. Experience supporting and ensuring business objectives are met. Experience troubleshooting business and production issues using various AIOps Monitoring tools. Demonstrated knowledge of standard engineering and AI/ML concepts, practices, procedures and performing a variety of engineering tasks. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $150,080/year to $234,000/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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