Staff, Software Engineer - Platform

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

As a software engineer, you will have the opportunity to work closely with our data scientists, business partners and systems engineers to drive the definition and implementation of the next generation of applications and analytics tools for our predictive intelligence platform. 

We are focused on teamwork, technology, and most importantly the customer. From using traditional web applications to visualization tools to mobile to enable data scientists and business users get actionable insights into extreme data,there are a lot of exciting opportunities!

What You'll Do:

• Develop real-time predictive analysis tools and back end platform
• Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our predictive analytics platform for very large volumes of data
• Demonstrate and clearly articulate reasoning for design and implementation choices
• Demonstrate willingness to take feedback and adapt solutions where appropriate
• Interact with other team members to incorporate their innovations and vice versa
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans 
• Lead and participate in medium-to large-scale projects
• Be the consummate team player with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. Amazing ability to get stuff done

What You'll Bring:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5-7 years of engineering experience (the more the better) 
• Built large scale projects with Java and Spring 
• Willing and able to work with a variety of programming languages
• Good knowledge of RDBMS databases such as Oracle, MySQL etc.
• Good knowledge of NoSql databases.
• Strong opinions backed by proven experience on how systems should be built 
• Knowledge of Devops, Provisioning, etc
• Experience with data models, the JVM, and Data Layer concepts (ORMs, JDBC, Connection Handling)
• Able to diagnose, debug, and optimize application data layer issues
• Strong and clear communicator that can listen to their team as well as clearly articulate their ideas
• Strong attention to detail
• A desire to bring innovative solutions to the challenges of scaling the API and platform
• Agile software development experience
• Well versed in data stores, distributed systems, data modeling and their associated pitfalls.

Manager's Preferred Qualifications (3-5 "nice to haves") :

• Experience with scripting languages such as Shell Script
• Experience with data streaming and caching.- Experience with Linux production environments

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds leading retailer who make