Software Engineer III

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are the Creative Platform team, building the tools and platforms that enable the ability to create and manage digital ads across all of Walmart intuitively and efficiently.  We are looking for a Software Engineer III to join our growing team.  You should be comfortable collaborating with product managers and other software engineers to translate customer requirements into technical requirements and turning ideas into scalable technical solutions. The ideal candidate has both a deep technical expertise and pragmatism with a bias towards shipping.    

You should be comfortable taking an end goal and identifying the most critical components to validate the thesis. When you run into bugs / issues, you are able to quickly troubleshoot and triage issues, coming up with solutions that fix both the underlying cause, and prevent future occurrences of similar issues.  You are pragmatic in evaluating tradeoffs, and don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. 

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:

*   Design, build and maintain REST API services using technologies such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat and data stores to enable user interaction with large volume datasets.
*   Build highly scalable, low latency, fault-tolerant, and high-performance architecture solutions for customer facing web and mobile applications.
*   Participate in software development life cycle (SDLC) phases including sprint planning, estimating, design, development, testing, and deployment within an Agile development environment.
*   Build customer facing software application features and platform libraries.
*   Build data communication between back-end systems using Kafka.
*   Develop Unit and Automation Testing Frameworks, Test Suites, and Stubs/Mocks using Selenium, Mockito, JUnit, TestNG, Mocha, and Chai to thoroughly test the software applications for all possible positive and negative use case scenarios and achieve 100% code coverage.
*   Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes. Enhancing design to prevent re-occurrence of defects. Use JIRA for Defect Reporting and Tracking.
*   Run SonarQube on applications to measure continuous code quality by reporting code smells and vulnerabilities.
*   Use Git Version Control System for coordinating work with the team. Integrate applications with Jenkins to set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Environments (CI/CD).
*   Work on Splunk dashboard/queries to monitor application and system health and debug production issues.
*   Use JMeter to load test software functional behavior and measure performance.
*   Provide required Demos to Business stakeholders on software features and take required feedback for improvements.
*   Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders for creation of project plans and ensure adherence to the project against approved milestones and timelines.

What you'll bring:

• Strong development experience in an OO language (Java, python, C++, C#, etc.) 
• Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, and message-oriented architecture. 
• Experience designing scalable microservices. 
• Experience designing loosely coupled services using asynchronous message processing including Kafka.  
• Experience working on cloud scale relational an