Position Summary
As part of Walmart's Global Sourcing Backend team, you will be building highly scalable and reliable APIs, services and applications which will drive the next generation purchase order management system. You'll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team, you'll be able to say that you work for the world's largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.
About Team
Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,200 retail units, operating in 23 countries such as Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Mexico and South Africa to name a few.
What You'll Do
- Identifying short and long-term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions, implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
- Provides support to the business for new and existing systems by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of own domain.
- Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams when needed; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; and completing online documentation.
- Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 4+ years of experience building scalable applications.
- Backend (Python):
- Utilize libraries 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.
- Frontend (React):
- Build a user-friendly interface using React components where users can input writing prompts, choose desired writing styles (e.g., poem, script, news article), and adjust generation parameters.
- Utilize React's state management libraries (Redux, Context API) to handle user interactions and display generated content dynamically.
- Implement an attractive and intuitive UI that allows users to review and iterate on generated content.
- Backend for Frontend / API Gateway (Node.js):
- Serve as a communication layer between the React frontend and the Python backend. Utilize a framework like Express.js to build a lightweight API gateway for managing incoming requests and responses.
- Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins and Maven.
- 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, Design Patterns.
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.
Minimum Qualifications
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum 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.
Preferred Qualifications
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Customer Service, 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.
Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location
680 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of America
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