Staff, Software Engineer

Walmart hiring for Staff, Software Engineer jobs in Queens, NY, US

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About The Team:
Walmart's Fulfillment Engineering team is a strong, well-established team that is continuing to build out new features to help accelerate our ever-increasing business needs and build out Warehouse Management System (WMS) that powers a network of 10+ High Velocity Fulfillment Centers (HVFCs) across the US. HVFCs also powers Walmart's Walmart Fulfillment Services which is fastest growing business for the company. Walmart's Supply Chain arm is its fastest growing sector so you will learn all the ins-and-outs of the eCommerce and fulfilment operations in one of the largest companies out there.

This team shares a strong collaborative and learning focused mentality, are growing experts in distributed systems and cloud-first architectures. With a great mix of junior and senior developers, this is an ideal environment to those who are looking to build next generation distributed systems to solve the real-world problems at scale.

We are embarking on a journey to migrate from current event sourced system that is completely built in F# with a strong focus on the functional programming paradigm. Existing system is designed around Event Sourcing/CQRS principles and is a highly distributed system of hundreds of microservices running in Azure Kubernetes on Walmart's Cloud Native Platform. All communication is done with Kafka. The existing system is being migrated to a next generation event driven best in class platform that is built in JAVA and has the reusability, high fault tolerance and high availability as its core architectural tenet.

We use the right tool for the job depending on the needs, so we also have heavy use of:

• SQL
• Cosmos DB
• Kafka
• Elastic Search

As a Staff Software Engineer on the team you are expected to combine a strong technical passion with leading projects and solving complex problems by collaborating with engineers within and across teams.

You'll make an impact by:

• Being hands-on with designing highly available, fault tolerant and scalable systems and with technical implementation.
• Having an excellent eye for operational excellence, owning production incidence investigation and resolution.
• Actively participating in brainstorming sessions for new features design or contribute to driving down tech debt.
• Mentoring and pair programming with junior engineers, doing PR and code reviews and holding the team to high coding and technical standards.
• Improving agile process and team development practices thus acting as force multiplier.
• Partnering and collaborating closely with product managers and other business stakeholders during the agile software development lifecycle.

You'll sweep us off our feet if you have:

• F# and/or functional Programming experience.
• Azure cloud (Cosmos DB) experience.
• Kafka experience.
• Ability to think out of the box and/or come up with data backed approaches to solving problems.
• You enjoy owning and solving complex problems without being told.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years' experience in any major programming language, preferably JAVA.
• Strong experience building cloud-first systems with deep knowledge of benefits and challenges.
• Very strong experience with heavily distributed systems architectures.
• Ability to choose between availability and consistency when practical.
• Proven ability to design and own the end-to-end projects/features in an Agile setting.

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 duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

About 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 expert 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 the office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for a 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 & Perks:

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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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.

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...
221 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030, United States of America