Staff, Software Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary... What you'll do... We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join Walmart Search Runtime Engineering team. This hands-on role requires exceptional coding skills, a passion for technology and engineering excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor a large team of engineers. You will play a pivotal role in defining and maintaining our technical architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability requirements and cost optimization. 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 Staff Software Engineer, you will: • Act as a technical lead to design, develop scalable, high-performance backend system and lead end-to-end delivery of core platform features and infrastructure improvements. • Serve as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams. • Drive system design, code quality, developer productivity and operational excellence. • Guide software engineers in building and delivering secure REST services using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and cloud technologies. • Drive availability, quality, performance, and resiliency goals with your team. • Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Product, Business, and Operations to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software products. • Direct root cause analysis of critical business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing relevant information (issue, impact, and criticality) and directing actions as designated in the plan. • Communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders at all levels. • Help establish tools, processes, and documentation to continuously improve code quality and engineering standards. •Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Science, Product, and Search Ops. What You'll Bring •Bachelor’s degree in computer science and 6 years of experience or master’s degree in computer science and 4 years of experience with building scalable, highly distributed, high performing, and robust Java applications. •Strong foundation in system design, data structures, and distributed systems. • Expert-level knowledge of Java technologies, Spring framework, Web applications and distributed systems with a focus on server-side components. •Proficient hands-on experience in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning Java application. • Experience with search technologies (e.g., Solr, Lucene, Vespa). •Experience working with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, or

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