Senior, Software Engineer - Back End

Position Summary...

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing new product features, supporting existing implementations and working with product, engineering, & business partners on new innovations.

What you'll do...

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:

• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project 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 project team and cross functional teams. Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan.  

• Models’ compliance with company policies, procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans. 

• Creates training documentation. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions. 

• Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components. 

• Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications. 

• Design and optimize databases using SQL and NoSQL technologies for data storage and retrieval. 

• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and ensure seamless integration with other systems. 

• Work with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure to build scalable and secure applications. 

• Utilize the ELK stack for log analysis and monitoring of system performance. 

• Develop and optimize queries using Big Query to analyze large datasets. 

• Collaborate with the team to perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure high-quality code delivery. 

• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team. 

What you'll bring:

• A good understanding of Java and Microservices.  

• Hands on experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS ), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS ( MySQL, Oracle etc ) 

• Should be hands on writing/reviewing design & code 

• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. 

• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.  

• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines is desirable. 

• Previous experience in internalization is a plus. 

• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.  

• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of d