Staff Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CABellevue, WA
Salary
$143,000–$286,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
134 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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

Walmart currently has 825 open roles on FindRole.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

As a staff, software engineer on the Marketplace Traffic Exposure team, you will lead the design and maintenance of advanced frameworks to enhance marketplace capabilities for sellers and channel partners. You will build high-performing applications that drive customer traffic to offers through paid and organic channels. Your daily responsibilities include coding, debugging, optimizing, and monitoring application health while providing technical mentorship to junior engineers and collaborating with product and UX/UI teams. You will utilize Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Maven, and cloud technologies to build secure REST services. You must also manage SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, and event-streaming platforms. This role solves complex business problems by improving speed of delivery, developer productivity, and overall engineering effectiveness within a distributed microservices architecture.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and deliver multiple business- or technology-driven projects with small to medium-sized teams.
  • Shape architectural decisions to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions for marketplace capabilities.
  • Guide engineers in building secure REST services using Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies.
  • Take ownership of the technical stack to improve delivery speed, developer productivity, and engineering effectiveness.
  • Drive availability, quality, performance, and resiliency goals for the Marketplace Traffic Exposure team.
  • Troubleshoot production issues by performing root cause analysis and developing actionable recovery plans.
  • Establish tools, processes, and documentation to continuously improve code quality and engineering standards.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to teammates and partner teams to foster professional growth.

What we're looking for

  • 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.
  • Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • 10+ years of experience building complex architectures, distributed systems, and microservices.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed caching, Kafka, and container technologies.
  • Experience building secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Kubernetes, and Maven.
  • Hands-on experience with BigQuery and Cloud Bigtable (preferred).
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience (preferred).
  • Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies (preferred).

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