Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

What you'll do:

• Design & develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology

• Coding, unit testing, building high performance and scalable applications that meet the needs of millions of Walmart-International customers, in the areas of supply chain management & Customer experience.

• Gain exposure to various emerging technologies used in Stores and E-commerce platforms including GenAI, LLM etc.

• Provide technical direction, architecture leadership and expertise to the team.

• Participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project, product and business requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirement); designing robust and scalable architectures; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery;

What you'll Bring:

• 10+ years of total experience in Backend engineering platform development of which 2+ years should be in GenAI, LLM, Chat GPT.

• 10+ years of experience in Java technologies, Distributed systems and large-scale application development and design.

• Experience with a containerization technology and Microservice, well versed in CI/CD

• Work with Java, Multithreading, Data Structures, Algorithm, Design Patterns and develop robust high- performance and scalable applications.

• Extremely strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and ability to mentor top individual technical talent

• Experience in NLP development and designing/prototyping architecture for AI, and building AI-embedded tools.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java/Python based tech stacks and automation.

• Exposure to NLP development and designing/prototyping architecture for AI, and building AI-embedded tools.

Gen AI /Backend (Python):

• Utilize libraries like to integrate a pre-trained Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model like GPT-4 or Gemini.

• Develop a text pre-processing module to handle user input, cleaning and formatting text for optimal model performance.

• Implement an API endpoint using a framework like Flask or FastAPI to receive user prompts and send them to the Gen AI model.

• Integrate a safety module to filter out potentially harmful or biased outputs from the model.

Backend for Frontend / API Gateway: 

• Strong experience interfacing with Web Services platforms

• Strong expertise in development of scalable cloud native microservices

• Strong expertise in designing and building APIs

• Strong expertise with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP

• Strong Expertise in Java/Python,  Design Patterns 

Soft Skills:

Leadership and Mentorship:

• Experience leading and mentoring junior engineers and GenAI engineers.

• Ability to provide technical guidance and support to team members.

Communication Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Collaboration and Teamwork:

• Experience working in cross-functional teams.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

About 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, 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...

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

Primary Location...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India