Position Summary...What you'll do...As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll spend your days translating requirements into solutions, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams and providing us with the insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. You'll oversee small project teams consisting of other engineers who will look to you as a trusted advisor, a subject matter expert who provides guidance and the right tools to get the job done.
The 1 on 1 member engagement initiative is all about crafting personalized solutions tailored to member behavior within Sam's ecosystem, enhancing the member experience, and facilitating a smooth digital journey.
*****Immigration Sponsorship support will NOT be available for thisposition***** About Team: Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivaled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services.
What you'll do: - Assists in providing guidance to small groups of 5 to 6 engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, directions, POC, examples, and timeline.
- Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short and long term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain.
- Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.
- Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation.
- Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.
- Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
- Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
- Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.
What you'll bring: - We are looking for someone that has experience in JAVA, Kubernetes, Cloud tech stack with 7 to 8 years of working experience. You have and can implement big ideas with a positive attitude. You want to be a part of the team to disrupt this industry and you have these main skills:
- Proficient understanding of Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, microservice architecture and design, and best practices around multithreading, networking, offline storage and performance tuning.
- Experience in delivering solutions using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and experience in working with distributed systems and resources such as message brokers, caching layers, databases.
- Having experience in building big data pipelines is an added advantage.
- Experience with refactoring/redesigning/rewriting existing applications is a plus (We are in the process of redesigning and refactoring of our current system)
- Ability to build products with focus on testability, someone who loves test coverage (well versed with Mockito and JUnit)
- A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment.
- A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level and a passion for adopting the latest features in Kubernetes, Java, and Spring Boot.
- Demonstrated knowledge of core design patterns to integrate with internal and external entities and data sources building fault tolerant systems;
- Designing and testing Relational Database Management Systems including SQL and NOSQL;
- Implementing Coding Standards using tools such as Sonar and Jocaco; using Azure Cloud & Google Cloud in deploying the application on different servers and maintaining the application to its standards for the users; and experience with project life-cycle, including analysis, design, development, implementation, support and enhancement.
Skill Set : - Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed containerized applications deployed in Azure/GCP cloud environments.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the following programming Languages: Java, Spring, SpringBoot technologies. Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) experience.
- Have proficient experience on NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, Cosmos, BigQuery, Mongo DB etc & SQL database services such as MS SQLServer, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL etc.
- Have proficient experience on Caching technologies such as Redis, Couchbase and appropriate realtime experience in applying caching solutions to scale the applications.
- Have proficient knowledge and experience with message brokers such as Kafka, Azure EventHub, Azure ServiceBus, GCP PubSub.
- Have proficient experience on building containerized applications using Docker and deploy them in K8S.
- Should have the ability to estimate the cloud costs, production capacity planning and should scale to support estimated loads.
- Solid devops skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux
- Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data
- Having experience in building big data pipelines using Azure Databricks using PySpark, Google DataProc using PySpark, Google DataFlow using Apache Beam is an additional advantage.
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...815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
