STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Drive architecture, design, development, operation and documentation of large-scale services.
• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide.
• Provide, guidance and mentorship to to a group of highly skilled and motivated engineers.
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Engage with Engineers, Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Drive Proof-of-Concepts and Proof-of-Technology evaluations.
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• 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.
• Publish and update technical architecture and user/process documentation
• You will need to exhibit strong technical leadership and communication skills to collaborate with business, product, engineering & management across different geographic locations.
• Guide and mentor other team members to promote highly technical and self-sufficient teams.
• Lead and participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross- functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements);
• Writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; collaborating with the project team and cross-functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on- time delivery and hand-offs;
• Seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness

What Youll Bring:

• Bachelors/master s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• 10 - 14 years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development in product based companies or R&D divisions.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in developing services in Java/Spring Boot
• 5+ years of experience designing, building large distributed systems for high availability and scale
• 5+ years of experience of developing services using managed servicing public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP or AWS
• 5+ years of experience and fluency with relational / no-sql (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, etc.) databases
• 5+ year of experience with Rest API, Message Brokers like Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, Caches such as Redis or memcached, Elastic Search, Spark and HDFS
• Proven understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short term implications of design decisions.
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Experience in working with large code bases and effectively driving large projects
• Experience in mentoring engineers and influencing other engineers across the organization
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Good problem-solving attitude and analytical skill