Software Engineer III

Job Description

Position Summary... What you'll do... About the Team As part of Walmart’s Stride Transportation Platform team , you will work with some of the brightest engineers and architects to solve large-scale, mission-critical transportation challenges that power Walmart’s global supply chain. We are building next-generation Transportation Planning, Optimization, Execution, and Yard Automation platforms that support Walmart’s end-to-end supply chain network. Our systems optimize freight movement across suppliers, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and stores—moving millions of shipments every year . By improving transportation forecasting, routing, carrier optimization, and capacity planning, we: Reduce transportation costs Improve on-time delivery Lower carbon emissions Ensure products reach customers and stores reliably The scale— millions of routes, thousands of facilities, real-time constraints, and dynamic conditions —makes this one of the most complex and impactful logistics engineering problems in the world. If you’re excited about building distributed systems with real-world impact at massive scale, we’d love to talk to you. What you’ll do Be part of a high-performing engineering team building enterprise-scale transportation platforms Write efficient, high-quality, and scalable code that operates at Walmart’s transportation scale Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features: design, development, implementation, documentation, testing, and deployment Collaborate closely with architects and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions aligned with QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery) goals and architectural standards Establish and promote engineering best practices and operational excellence Communicate effectively with stakeholders across product, engineering, and operations Learn and work with transportation domain data, including shipments, routes, carriers, lanes, costs, service levels, and capacity constraints Own business stories from concept to production, including QA and post-release support Participate in on-call rotations to support critical transportation systems Research, learn, and adopt new technologies to improve platform performance, reliability, and cost efficiency Participate in innovation initiatives and hackathons to explore next-generation transportation capabilities Adhere to company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity What you’ll bring: B.E. / B.Tech from a reputed institution Minimum of 3 years of strong backend engineering experience Strong proficiency in Java and backend application development Solid understanding of the Spring Framework , especially Spring Boot Experience building scalable services using Java, Spring Boot , and frontend technologies such as React JS / React Native Experience building and maintaining distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka Strong understanding of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) such as performance, scalability, reliability, and security Experien

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