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About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the execution and evolution of large-scale payment platforms across multiple engineering teams within the UPP Payments team. This role owns delivery, architecture, and technical strategy for highly available distributed systems in a complex, regulated transaction environment. You will drive cloud-native engineering, DevOps, automation, and observability while overseeing payment processing, transaction routing, authorization, retries, and reversals. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and ensuring platform resiliency, security, and cost optimization. The role requires deep knowledge of microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, CI/CD, and PCI DSS. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant solutions involving payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, and tokenization to maintain stability during peak traffic and downstream disruptions.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $219125 from 113 postings across 35 companies.
Lead the execution and evolution of large-scale, highly available distributed payment platforms.
Drive architectural decisions for transaction routing, authorization, retries, and system resiliency.
Oversee cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and production readiness across multiple teams.
Manage technical strategy for scalability, security, performance, and cloud cost optimization.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives meeting compliance and certification requirements.
Mentor engineers and establish metrics for platform health, latency, and transaction success.
Ensure payment solutions meet strict security and reliability standards in a regulated environment.
What we're looking for
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 and 2 years’ supervisory experience.
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 (preferred).
Proven engineering leadership experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments, fintech, retail, or transaction-intensive environments.
Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, capture, reversal, refund, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling.
Experience with payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS.
Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence.
Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices (preferred).