Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Personalization team at Walmart is dedicated to the mission of knowing our customers better and making it frictionless and faster for them to get what they want while building a trusted partnership with Walmart. We help bring a seamless experience to our customers irrespective of how and where they engage with us – while shopping online or picking groceries at stores. We thrive to provide each customer with a journey tailored to their individual needs, preferences and routines. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global customer base and powers assisted AI for our associates.

The Personalization team consists of big data geeks, application engineers, scientists and product visionaries all working together to design, prototype and build technology-driven products and experiences that will change the future landscape of e-commerce. We are focused on building an intelligent system that will enable 1:1 personalized customer experience, from finding the product to delivering it to the customer. We are building state-of-the-art probabilistic models and engineering marvels to serve our customer needs by leveraging cutting edge machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, entity-relationship extraction and knowledge representation. This will span many markets, business models and form factors; therefore, we are looking for scientists and engineers who will bring not only an abundance of experiences in technologies, but an abundant curiosity to innovate.

About Team:

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, launch, sustenance and modernization of the highly scalable P13N Unified services and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Provide technical direction, architecture leadership and expertise to the team.
• Drive projects of high visibility across the organization.
• Mentor and grow team members while working in an agile environment and ensure best engineering practices are followed.
• Participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project, product and business requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery.

What you'll bring:

• Proficient in building scalable Microservices.
• Strong Expertise in Object Oriented & Functional Programming, Design Patterns.
• In depth knowledge of No-SQL and RDBMS technologies.
• Proficient with event driven architecture using Kafka.
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
• Working knowledge in container and cloud native technologies – Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Maven.
• Strong expertise with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP.
• Experience in monitoring production system and using different systems like Grafana, Prometheus.
• Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
• You have strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices, and Agile Software Development.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Glo