Position Summary:
The Acquisition and Discovery Engineering team at Walmart is dedicated to providing a seamless and delightful shopping experience to millions of shoppers worldwide. As a software engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to work on top of the funnel shopping experience – Homepage, Content Pages for SEO and SEM, Search & Browse experiences, Deals and Item pages across mobile and web platforms.
This collaborative team made up of Engineering, UX, Product Management, Business and Analytics is rapidly iterating on new products and site features at scale. We deliver high performing solutions on our next generation front-end platform. Virtual Try-On, Gen AI integration, personalized complete-the-look, Video shopping, etc. are just a few examples of the features developed by this team in collaboration with many other teams. Continuous experimentation, innovation and feedback by millions of customers makes this work even more exciting!
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in full stack experience to join this team. This hands-on role requires expert coding skills, strong architecture and design, deep focus and experience on operational excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor a small team of engineers. You will play a critical role in leading, designing, and developing business and technology initiatives that solve mission critical business problems for Walmart customers.
What you'll bring:
- 4+ years of hands-on coding experience with React JS , NodeJS , Typescript
- Fundamental Web development skills (Core understanding of the web, services and how things integrate). Cookies, headers, server to server communication understanding is critical.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills and be able to articulate complex technical concepts in an approachable way for broad audiences.
- Experience in working with GraphQL using NodeJS would be a plus.
- Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.
- Experience with monitoring mobile app performance, stability, success rate and leveraging data to improve the same.
- Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing code reviews.
- Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do:
- Hands on development on building n-tier applications using ReactJS , NodeJS , TypeScript
- Participate in managing code & configurations for multiple environments, release management process, creating and maintaining environment configuration and controls, code integrity and work closely with platform team.
- Analyzing business requirements, storyboards and similar artifacts of the scrum process, work in an agile development environment with a quick turnaround time and iterative builds.
- Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design.
- Leads the work of other small groups of three to five engineers.
- Troubleshoots business and production issues.
- Ensures inclusion of business vision and industry trends to enable results that drive business.
- Problem solving and troubleshooting design and development issues and provide appropriate solutions.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to the junior engineers.
- Knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code.
- A desire to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
Minimum 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 Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year's experience in software engineering or related area.
- Knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Primary Location:
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
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