Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

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As a Staff Software Engineer in the eCommerce Search domain, you will lead the development of advanced search functionalities, ensuring robust and efficient performance. You will mentor junior engineers and drive technical innovation, collaborating closely with stakeholders to deliver impactful search solutions that enhance user engagement and business outcomes.

About Team:
Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few. The Search ML Infrastructure team owns the foundational data pipelines, ML serving infrastructure, evaluation platforms, and experimentation frameworks that enable search and ML capabilities across all international markets.

What you will do

• Leading the work of other small groups engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.  
• Troubleshooting business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; directing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation.  
• Leading the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, design, project management, business and user experience teams; obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concept; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.  
• Developing Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices by leading internal technical teams; partnering with cross-functional teams across the business; developing assessments of key opportunities; documenting project scopes; developing long-range plans and project timelines; communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization; and resolving technology differences across teams through informed discussions.  
• Driving the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards, measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.   

What you'll bring:

• 7+ years of contributing high-quality code to production systems that operate at scale.
• Experience in building n-tier highly scalable, fault tolerant, reactive Microservices using Java/Scala, and RESTful architecture  
• Experience in machine learning, Chat GPT or similar platforms, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/Pytorch
• Good understanding of Java, Spring Boot, and experience working with distributed systems and teams.  
• 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)  
• Good understanding of Kubernetes, Helm, microservice architecture and design, and best practices around multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning  
• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.  
• Experience designing optimization algorithms in Search and Personalization platform.

About Walmart Global Tech
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