Software Engineer Iii

Position Summary...

About Global Tech in India
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.

Team and Position Summary:
This position is part of the Advertising Technology group within New Business and Emerging technology organisation. This is a high-impact, fast-moving team working on greenfield projects with the backing of a Fortune 1 company. Our mission is to make digital advertisements more effective through low latency serving, precise targeting, cutting-edge measurement and optimisation technologies leveraging the trove of big data within the Walmart ecosystem. We are a highly motivated group of Big Data Geeks, Data Scientists and Applications Engineers, working in small agile groups to solve sophisticated and high impact problems. We are building smart data systems that ingest, model and analyse massive flow of data from online and offline user activity. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimisation algorithms underneath it all to analyse all this data on top of Hadoop and Spark. The team also operates an end to end advertising platform that includes a scalable ad service that serves hundreds of millions of impressions each day, sophisticated ad matching algorithms, real-time reports, self-service interface for end to end program management etc.

What you'll do...

 Advertising Technology

Ever wondered what would a convergence of online and offline advertising systems look like? Ever wondered how we can bridge the gap between sponsored search, display, video ad formats? Ever thought how we can write our own ad servers which serve billions of requests in near real-time?

Our Advertising Technology team is building an end-to-end advertising platform that is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to ingest, model, and analyze Walmart’s proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.

What You”ll do

• Build systems to process and derive insights from high-dimensional, fast-moving, unstructured and structured data.

• Work with Data Scientists to build and deploy machine learning and statistical models to predict or estimate key signals that are used to optimize advertising product performance.

• Run large-scale statistical A/B testing to evaluate the performance of machine learning and statistical models in advertising applications that serve hundreds of millions of impressions per day.

• Build compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards for monitoring and sharing of business insights internally and externally.

• Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our platform

What You”ll Bring

•     Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field with 3-6 years of software development experience.

•     Writing scalable, performant, maintainable code in one or more of the languages – Core Java, Scala, Node.js, Python

•     Experience with Big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark

•     Experience with event-based architecture such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, ActiveMQ etc.

•     Hands-on experience in implementing modern software development practices like Agile (Scrum), BDD, TDD, etc.

•     Experience or understanding of Machine learning model building is a big plus

•     Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes is a plus

•     Great communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex concepts and techniques in simple terms relevant to the needs of the business.

•     Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

•     Good knowledge of common software development tools/technologies (Git, Java, Eclipse, Apache, MySQL, Oracle, NoSql databases, etc.).

•     Basic understanding of Data Science and models.

•     Experience in advertising domain.

•     Experience in Big Data applications

•     Experience developing with web/app containers such as Apache/Tomcat

•     Follows the industry trends in the online world

•     Good knowledge of High performance Stream processing, Large Scale Messaging Systems

•     Experience with designing systems for scale with Object-Oriented design concepts

bout 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 why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. 

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 2years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Option 2: 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Customer Care, Customer Service, Information Technology, Project Management, Retail Operations, Support, Technical Strategy, Troubleshooting

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India