Senior, Software Engineer – APEX

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join Walmart as Senior Software Engineer – APEX in our Global Technology EBS team.  Your work could help over 240 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in belinging, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

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.

About the Team

The Associates Productivity & experience (APEX) organization builds and supports associate facing applications and experiences. We seek to remove the friction points as an associate's navigates their workday and build consumer grade experiences.

APEX builds world-class applications and experiences for Walmart associates.  From building one of the world’s largest intranets, to Walmart associate’s portal which performs 400+ Million searches yearly, 2.3 million associates rely on our solutions to perform their daily job. 

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced full stack engineer with a strong technical architecture acumen. You will be part of Engineering Excellence team who drives the software & systems architecture & engineering best practices across the APEX organization. As a member of the APEX Engineering Excellence team, you will lead the efforts to build & maintain software systems being used across different teams. You will be helping APEX teams in troubleshooting and solving complex problems based on your experience. You will build the relationship and guide the junior engineers in the area.

• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale data projects by reviewing project requirements

• Translate requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames)

• Write and develop code; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders

• Collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes

• Ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer information systems with 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.

• 5+ years of programming experience in Java/J2EE and related technologies.

• Front-end development proficiency using React, JavaScript, CSS, and React Native.

• Strong experience in building RESTful APIs and event/message-driven applications leveraging Kafka or similar messaging queues.

• Skilled in SQL and NoSQL databases, including schema design and database indexing.

• Solid understanding of system components such as authentication/authorization, API gateways, load balancers, high availability, and microservices architecture.

• Hands-on DevOps experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., Azure) and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins.

• Expertise in cloud technologies including Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Proven ability to design and implement applications and features with strong architectural acumen.

• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and data structures.

• Experience leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) through prompt engineering for code generation.

• Ability to mana