COMPLETE (USA) Staff Software Engineer - Bentonville, AR

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

It’s an exciting time to join Walmart’s journey. Want to use design and coding skills to solve real-life large-scale problems impacting millions of lives?

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a key position within the Global Mobility Automation team.  The Mobility Automation platform plays a key role in enabling associates to work faster, secure and be more efficient. The Global Mobility Automation team developments mobile applications, workflows, and cloud programs to support Walmart’s 2 million mobile devices.

About The Team: 

The Global Mobility Automation team supports the successful deployment and infrastructure of all mobile applications. We strive to continuously improve technology and products to help associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members.  Mobility Automation supports one of the largest mobile fleets in the world, working with multiple MDM (Mobile Device Management) models such as Fully Managed, COPE, and BYOD. 

Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.
 

What you'll do:

• Leads the technical work of a small groups of six to ten software engineers, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timelines; reviewing and approving proposed solutions, implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level designs by partnering with the product management group, business partners, project management, and application teams; obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concepts; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
• Leads and participates 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 and product requirements); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with the project team and business partners.
• Supports business objectives by collaborating with business partners to identify opportunities; addressing high-priority initiatives (for example, business strategy, technical feasibility, implementation alternatives); identifying short- and long-term solutions; and leading cross-functional partnership.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; directing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation.
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Drive the development of technical solutions across engineering, and operation teams by providing technical leadership, guidance, and direction.
• Assessing current systems and processes and developing ways to improve them. Work closely toward resiliency and hardening to have a robust system.
• Work closely with key stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and application development teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of technical/operational solutions.
• Continuously monitor industry trends, advancements, and emerging technologies to ensure the system remains relevant and innovative.
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of technology tools, frameworks, and platforms that align with the overall platform strategy.
• Act as a mentor to team members providing guidance, support, and training on best architectural and coding practices.
• Build scripts to automate mitigation playbook steps to reduce impact during production incidents.

 

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years of working experience in Java/J2EE.
• 3+ years of experience with Kotlin and Android.
• 5+ Total years of experience with Mobile Development. 
• 3+ years of experience with a Mobile Device Management (MDM).
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and be able to articulate complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Demonstrated high level design of systems.
• Solid experience in large scale distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Have designed, built, and maintained APIs, services, and systems on cloud at large scale.
• Mentored and led other team members.
• High expectations of yourself for innovation, execution, and accuracy.
• Lead others with respect.
• Are curious and have the desire to learn new technologies and quickly change direction. 

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

805 SE MOBERLY LN, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712, United States of America