Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

As a Senior Manager on the Walmart Commerce Technologies Retail Media team you will have the opportunity to work on commercializing mature enterprise systems and enabling them for retailers. You will build a new SaaS product and ensure engineering excellence. As an experienced engineer you will have the chance to influence technical strategy for this new product. This is a great opportunity for career development What youll do: Manage a high performing team of 5-10 engineers & engineering leads who work across multiple technology stacks including Java, NodeJS. Drive design, development, implementation and documentation Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics. Designing, guiding and vetting system designs to ensure scalable and robust architecture Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community. Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products. Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines. Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams. Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe Setting team priorities that support the borader organization s goals and prioritizing feature development aligned with team s strategic objectives Establishing clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, meeting regularly to discuss performance, provide feedback and coaching Developing the mid-term technical vision and roadmap, evolving it to meet future requirements and infrastructure needs. Leading a team of engineers and tech leads to transform the technical vision into reality What youll bring: Bachelors/Master s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 3+ years of experience in managing engineering teams. Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams. Hands on experience building Java, NodeJS based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable. A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins. Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Posseses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts. Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools. Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries. Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB. Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems. Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka. Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues. Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes. Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage. Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more. Minimum Qualifications... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years experience in software engineering or related area. 2 years supervisory experience. Preferred Qualifications... Master s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years experience in software engineering or related area