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Walmart Canada · 3 months ago

(USA) Staff, Software Engineer (Java)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$143K/yr - $286K/yr

9+ years exp

Walmart Canada is a leading e-commerce platform, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Marketplace Engineering team. The role involves providing technical expertise, leading projects, and developing scalable software applications to enhance the seller experience and streamline fulfillment processes.

DeliveryRetailShopping

Responsibilities

Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices

Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders

Developing highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology

Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms

Designing and developing backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go)

Collaborate with project teams and cross functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide e input on project plan

Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation

Provide support to the business by responding to users' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships

Driving projects of high visibility across the organization

Leading team in designing systems and apps

Leading team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information

Leading the discovery phase of projects to produce high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, and business and user experience teams

Qualification

JavaCloud ImplementationMicroservices ArchitectureCosmos DBKafkaPythonCI/CD PipelinesAgile MethodologiesRelational DatabasesTechnical LeadershipProblem SolvingTeam CollaborationCommunication Skills

Required

At least 9 years of experience in architecting large scale systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime

Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, etc.)

Strong background in algorithms and data structures

Experience in leading teams and delivering large scale distributed systems and event-driven architecture

Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture

Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)

Experience using any of the automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling, etc. or equivalent tools is a plus

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment experience is a plus

Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt

Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, Scrum)

Experience and fluency with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, etc.)

Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies

Previous experience in the marketplace domain

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

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

We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly

The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture

Benefits

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.

Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.

Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.

Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.