(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 26
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
The team collaborates with Walmart International, which operates over 5,900 retail units outside the United States under 55 banners in 26 countries. Walmart Global Tech brings together software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts building retail technology at scale. This hands-on Staff Full Stack Engineer role designs and builds scalable systems across frontend, backend, and data platforms using React, Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and Spark, while defining technical direction and mentoring engineers.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using React and Java/Spring Boot.
- Build robust backend services, APIs, and distributed systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Develop and maintain real-time and event-driven systems using Apache Kafka.
- Design and implement large-scale data processing and analytics pipelines using Apache Spark.
- Work across the entire technology stack—from frontend user experiences to backend services, data processing, and distributed systems.
- Take ownership of complex technical problems and drive them from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Define and review system architecture, technical designs, APIs, data models, and integration patterns.
- Conduct detailed code reviews and ensure high standards of code quality, maintainability, testability, and engineering excellence.
- Establish and promote best practices around design patterns, coding standards, testing, observability, and CI/CD.
- Identify technical debt and drive initiatives to improve system quality, performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Evaluate new technologies and approaches and drive adoption where they provide meaningful technical or business value.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale production systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Strong experience building modern web applications using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven/distributed architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and large-scale data processing.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, data modeling, and system design.
- Experience designing and implementing highly scalable and reliable systems.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, concurrency, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong focus on code quality, automated testing, maintainability, and engineering best practices.
- Experience conducting architecture and code reviews and driving technical standards across engineering teams.
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams.
- Hands-on technical leader: You should be comfortable writing production code rather than being limited to architecture or technical oversight.
- Strong system thinker: Able to reason about scalability, reliability, performance, security, and operational characteristics of complex systems.
- Quality-focused engineer: Passionate about clean, maintainable, well-tested code and engineering excellence.
- Architecture leader: Able to define technical direction while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term system evolution.
- Collaborative mentor: Able to raise the engineering bar through design discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
- End-to-end ownership: Comfortable taking a problem from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment, and production operations.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for your performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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