(USA) Senior, Software Engineer
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Walmart. Bentonville · full-time · $90,000–$180,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Assess business and technical needs, compare them with available solutions, and surface gaps, risks, and proposed fixes
- Shape user stories and detailed component designs, weighing trade-offs against business requirements
- Build and secure application components, automate routine work, and add telemetry where needed
- Turn customer requirements into test cases, run tests, and track defects through fixes and regression checks
- Monitor application metrics and logs, resolve performance bottlenecks, and assess maintenance work and change requests
What you bring
- A relevant computing degree plus one year of software engineering experience, or a bachelor's degree plus three years
- Hands-on experience building REST services with Spring Boot and coding in Java and Python
- Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores, API specifications, security scanning, and continuous inspection tools
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, testing with containers and JUnit5, and deploying with Docker and Kubernetes
Who this fits
This role suits an engineer who can handle requirements, design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and application maintenance. The position is based in Bentonville, Arkansas.
From the employer
What you'll do...
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716
Duties: Requirement And Scoping Analysis: Explores relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, that can address business/technical needs. Assesses gaps/updates/modifications between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Classifies the requirements into applicable types (For example - Functional/Non-Functional, Derived/Imposed/Emergent etc.). Anticipates the solution risks/issues during requirements gathering phase, inform relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps. Contributes to the creation of user stories for component/application/complex (For agile methodology). Solution Design: Assists in design of solutions such that the processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product. Evaluates trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assists in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules/components of a product. Coding: Creates/configures minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the components are meeting business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Assists in the selection of appropriate languages (E.g. JavaScript, Python, C# etc.), development standards and tools (E.g. Monday.com, Linx, Embold etc.) for software coding/configuration. Takes initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work. Builds scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process (as applicable). Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensures security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: Maps the customer requirements in to test objectives. Identifies and creates test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Executes different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: Tracks and analyzes defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyzes defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoots performance and availability bottlenecks for the application. DevOps Orientation: Conducts complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluates the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) and re-engineering activities. Analyzes application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluates change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible. Program Monitoring: Ensures adherence to the project against approved milestones and timelines.
Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.
Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing and implementing REST API web services using frameworks like Spring Boot; Coding using object-oriented programming languages (Java and Python); Application of design patterns and OOP design principles; Data persistence with RDBMS like MSSQL; Data persistence with RDBMS like MySQL and NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Mango DB; API specifications through Swagger; Resolving vulnerabilities with Codegate; Utilizing continuous inspection tools (SonarQube); Building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Looper, Concord, WCNP and kitt; Integration testing through test containers and Spring Boot and JUnit5 tests; JaCoCo reports for code coverage; Application containerization through Docker; Container orchestration through Kubernetes; Service Mesh technologies like Istio; Azure B2C; Messaging queues (Kafka and RabbitMQ). Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or experience with the required skills.
Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.com.
Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
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