Staff, Software Engineer – Front End & GraphQL

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

* Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.*

As a Staff Engineer, you will set the tone of engineering-excellence and drive processes and standards within the team. You will lead the design of complex software changes and take on the development of exciting new features. In addition, you will partner with your senior and junior teammates throughout the software development lifecycle to cultivate a reciprocal learning environment from development to debugging and operational excellence.

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:

• Provide technical leadership and use engineering best practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross functional, and company-wide projects.
• Demonstrate craftsmanship and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
• Work with Walmart’s Web Platform community to drive improvement to the overall foundation on which Walmart.com stands.
• Identify, leverage, and successfully evangelize opportunities to improve engineering productivity, product quality and efficiency.
• Generate technical documentation and presentations to communicate architectural and design options, and educate development, product and business teams.
• Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments, ensuring that these environments are setup with the standard automated build and releases processes & deliver with quality, reliability.
• Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
• Monitor the health of web pages, work cross-functionally with partner teams such as Site Ops, Network, Storage, Systems, Monitoring & Application team.
• Set high standards for operational excellence and system observability.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of experience with software development and architecture
• 3+ years of experience with developing and operating GraphQL APIs
• Experience and/or interest in building tooling that makes your engineering colleagues successful
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying backend APIs or full stack applications
• 7+ years of development experience in JavaScript
• Adept in API development and NodeJS
• Experience with TypeScript

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 Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are w