Senior, Software Engineer | Backend | Personalization | Sunnyvale

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

**Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role.**

Walmart Global Tech is looking to hire a seasoned Backend Senior Software Engineer for Personalization team. If you are an engineer who comes with both strong back-end & front-end devlopment background & are passionate about solving problems at scale, feel free to apply!

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:

• Participate in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); 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; and providing leadership to the project team.
• Collaborate with other small groups of four to six 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 providing feedback for prosed solutions; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; performing 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.

What you’ll bring:

Specialization in the following:

• Backend development: Java, Spring, Springboot, REST, RPC
• Scripting: Python, Shell

• Working knowledge in one or more of:
  • Front end development: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, React, NodeJS 
  • Big Data: Hive, Spark
  • Container: Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience with modern unit testing frameworks (e.g., Testng, Junit)
• Experience building Microservices
• Experience working on relational and NoSQL databases
• Well versed in both private and public cloud technologies
• Deep understanding of architecture and data-driven development
• Ability to work with designers to develop dynamic user experiences
• A strong sense of ownership
• Experience building and maintaining a production application
• An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
• Experience working with large codebase on a cross functional team
• Experience in building large scale systems

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