Position Summary:
You will be able to design and deliver readable, maintainable, testable, scalable, reusable, and efficient code. You’ll have an opportunity to work in an Agile team with Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to solve exciting and challenging problems. Collaborate with Backend teams to design & develop mobile apps. Follow established architecture patterns and suggest improvements. You’ll manage the complex challenges of microservices and scale unique to Walmart’s e-commerce, stores, and omni-channel platform, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complex triaging and analysis, and large-scale system design.
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
- You architect and lead the implementation to support new functionalities and user experiences.
- You work with your manager, product, operations and design, to plan, execute, and deliver on sprint, quarterly and project goals.
- You serve as a Subject Matter Expert to provide technical leadership and mentorship to your teammates, other teams and engineers.
- Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Software Engineering and apply this to the development of action plans. Analyze business problems to design solutions and/or implement and test complex code changes for specific requirements or applications. Deliver high quality code for the product requirements in an agile scrum sprint.
- Investigate and fix software defects.
- Assure app stability and code coverage by writing Unit and Functional tests.
- Collaborate with platform team members across web, iOS and Android to align on solutions across platforms.
- Utilize industry open-source research, tools, and practices to improve Walmart technology environment.
- Design complex systems which are scalable and fault tolerant. You will reason about trade-offs (timeliness/accuracy/resource usage) of multiple algorithmic solutions and to highlight the difference in product outcomes.
- Implement applications which meet throughput and SLAs requirements. Implement unit test cases, perform code reviews, and write feature documentation. Perform build, deployment, and continuous integration processes to move the code and configurations from local development environments to QA & Production environments.
- Perform code reviews of proposed source changes.
What you'll bring:
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- 8+ years of professional experience in various elements of software development – native mobile, Android and hands-on coding experience in the past.
- Experience with a consumer-facing app and eCommerce or retail shopping.
- Good hands-on Gradle tooling, static and dynamic code analysis, mobile app performance, analytics frameworks.
- Previous knowledge of designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform.
- Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Work with outside data sources and APIs.
- Experience translating wireframes into pixel-perfect views.
- Knowledgeable about animation and screen transitions.
- Experience with Android SDK, Services, and various methods of background processing.
- Experience working with remote data via REST, JSON, Google Cloud Messaging, and the HTTP protocol.
- Experience with Google Play APIs: Maps, Location, and Cloud Messaging.
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle and writing readable, maintainable, performant object-oriented code.
- Experience working with Kotlin, Coroutines, MVVM, MVVM Clean, View Models, Repository Design pattern, and other architectures.
- Experience with React Native a plus.
- Being a team player, critical thinker, and exhibiting problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated and ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Familiarity with Android Studio, Kotlin, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and GraphQL.
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 experts, 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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
Minimum Qualifications:
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’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. 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.
Primary Location:
10500 Ne 8Th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America.