Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

This Position will not provide sponsorship support.

This is an opportunity for you to be part of a new team that is being stood up now, and you can be a founding member to set the strategy, culture, technology and working norms. It’s a unique chance to be an intrapreneur—building something new from the ground up at Fortune 1 company scale, while backed by the strength of Walmart and leveraging the assets of the world’s largest omnichannel retailer.

About Team: 
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.

What you'll do:

• Build reusable React components with modular CSS, manage data on the client with React Context, use react query, and GraphQL.
• Measure and resolve performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, WebPagetest, or custom tooling.
• Refactor or improve existing code. We constantly find ways to improve all of our JavaScript code and you are all aboard. 
• Work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to create amazing and intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together.
• Help put tools, processes, and documentation in place to improve our code quality.
• Demonstrate technical expertise in solving challenging programming and design problems
• Review code written by other team members or other teams.
• Participate each phase of the software development lifecycle in an Agile DevOps environment
• Ship to hundreds of thousands of users every day while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership.
• Help out with our Node-based developer platform.
• Share what you know and learn either one-on-one or with lightning talks to the group.
• Work boldly with a sense of urgency; embrace mistakes, learn from them, and drive the team toward success

What you'll bring:

• 4+ years of experience in object-oriented design and software development
• 4+ years of experience in building responsive, single page web applications using modern front-end JavaScript technologies like React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Thorough understanding of TypeScript, React, Node.JS and its core principles 
• 4+ years of experience in creating and/or consuming RESTful web services
• Experience with building and integrating APIs leveraging federated GrpahQL
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Looper, Jenkins and GitOps
• Working knowledge of tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana and Splunk for production support
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate,