Senior, Software Engineer

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Position Summary... What you'll do... As a member of the Search team, you'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and testing code change required for special business requirements. You'll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of the team, you'll be able to say that you work for the world's largest retailer and contribute to the development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it. The search group runs a large distributed system powered mostly by the JVM with Java as our primary programming language. We additionally have some use cases utilizing Python, primarily in the machine learning domain. We heavily use kubernetes, Solr, Redis, Kafka, Spark and NoSQL, among other cutting-edge technologies in our core platform. Experience with these technologies would be advantageous but is not required. About Team: Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization. What you'll do: As a Senior Software Engineer , you’ll spend your days translating requirements into solutions, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing us with the insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. You’ll work in project teams consisting of other engineers achieving shared goals. During any given day, you will: Assist in solving problems by writing and developing code, conducting unit testing, communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders, troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Assist in providing guidance to engineers for assigned Engineering projects by providing detailed technical feedback through various channels including pair programming and code reviews. Provide support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause) and performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues. Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, user experience teams, and engineering teams. Now, imagine doing all the above for the world’s largest retailer. That’s the Walmart experience. Intrigued? What you'll bring: You have and can implement big ideas with a positive attitude. You w

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