(USA) Senior, Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop scalable backend services and APIs to support complex digital experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across domains, including product, frontend, data, and UX teams, to design solutions that enhance the customer journey.
• Lead technical initiatives, including solution architecture, performance tuning, and system scalability enhancements.
• Optimize application performance and ensure high code quality.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive knowledge sharing within the team.
• Advocate for best practices in services architecture, security, and testing.
• Implement and maintain secure, high-performance, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Develop reusable frameworks and components for backend service integrations.
• Maintain high code quality through automated testing, continuous integration, and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across complex services.
• Build scalable and reliable systems that handle large volumes of traffic and data.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following engineering best practices.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in distributed systems across environments.
• Contribute to performance optimization, security improvements, and system resilience.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.

Requirements

• 6 to 9 years of total experience, with at least 5+ years in frontend engineering platform development.
• Experience with frontend technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, HTML, CSS, SCSS.
• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks and responsive, accessible design.
• Experience with backend development using Node.js, Express, NestJS, and designing scalable APIs with RESTful and GraphQL.
• Knowledge of authentication and security protocols like OAuth, JWT, session management, and RBAC.
• Experience with database management including SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Firebase).
• Familiarity with caching strategies using Redis or Memcached.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and monitoring tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, Chai, Cypress, Playwright, JMeter, OWASP ZAP.
• Understanding of microservices architecture, design patterns (SOLID, MVC, CQRS), and scalability techniques.
• Strong adherence to SDLC processes and agile methodologies.

Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area.
• Experience creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards.
• Knowledge of assistive technologies and digital accessibility best practices.
• Experience integrating accessibility standards into product development.

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Preferred: Master's degree in relevant field and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area.

Benefits & Perks

• Incentive awards for performance.
• 401(k) match, stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• Paid time off including PTO, sick leave, holidays, and other leave options.
• Multiple health plans, short-term and long-term disability, company-paid life insurance.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U).
• Additional perks such as company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.