STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 15
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
Walmart Global Tech's Customer Technology Omni Services team creates frictionless end-to-end omni-channel customer journeys spanning store experience, the digital app, and data insights for retail shopping and checkout. The team owns store services in digital retail such as Wireless, BPO, SIM and ACC, building backend systems hosted on-premises and in the cloud plus web, Android and iOS applications for Walmart US markets using Core Java technologies and Azure Cloud. This Staff Software Engineer role is a senior technical leadership position that spans problem discovery, architecture, hands-on prototyping and production deployment, while advancing AI-native engineering with LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG and semantic search.
What you will do
- Embed directly with Walmart business teams and customers to understand their workflows, uncover high-value problems, and turn ambiguity into clear technical plans.
- Own complex initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Stay hands-on across design, development, testing, deployment, and production support, delivering reliable solutions at Walmart scale.
- Build and productionize AI-native solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, semantic search) with rigorous evaluation, security, governance, and observability.
- Identify patterns across engagements and turn them into reusable architectures, components, and standards that let other teams move faster.
- Serve as the voice of the customer to Product, Platform, and Engineering, shaping roadmaps based on what you learn in the field.
- Lead technically without direct authority: drive architecture decisions, raise engineering quality, and mentor engineers across teams and geographies.
- Connect every engagement to measurable customer and business outcomes, balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term sustainability
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications, platforms, or distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on system design and architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and design patterns.
- Extensive hands-on experience with modern backend, frontend, cloud, and distributed technologies.
- Strong experience designing and building RESTful services, microservices, APIs, messaging systems, and data platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD technologies.
- Experience with observability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations.
- Demonstrated experience conducting architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Strong hands-on ability to prototype and validate technical solutions.
- Experience applying AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development is highly valuable.
- Ability to learn and adopt emerging technologies quickly.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence and build consensus across teams without direct authority.
- Strong customer and business orientation
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and operate effectively in a highly complex engineering environment.
- Knowledge of Retail Domain will be an added advantage
- Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area
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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