(USA) Software Engineer III

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Manage small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solutions based on return on investment and value add to the business.
• Participate in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high-level design by partnering with product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information; performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan.
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices.
• Help cross-functional teams to solve business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a 'best-in-class' customer experience.
• Encourage the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes.

Requirements

• Extensive understanding of microservice architecture and design, and best practices around multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning.
• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of Java, Spring Boot, and experience working with distributed systems and teams.
• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.
• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments.
• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.
• Proficient knowledge and experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Cosmos DB, SQL.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop Map-Reduce.
• Experience with Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins).
• Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.
• Development of high-performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data.
• Minimum of a Bachelor'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, or 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Nice to Have

• Extensive experience with Dataproc, Spark, and GCP.
• Extensive experience building production systems handling large volumes of data.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and experience creating inclusive digital experiences following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines.

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor'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.
• Option 2: 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Benefits & Perks

• Incentive awards for performance.
• 401(k) match, stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Paid time off including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program covering tuition, books, and fees.