STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About Team

Walmart’s Corporate Tech and Services is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is Corporate Tech. Joining this team means embarking on a journey of and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

What You Will DoLead requirements gathering, scoping, and analysis for complex business-critical applications, translating business needs into clear, actionable engineering requirements.

Drive solution design and architectural decisions, ensuring solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements for scalability, performance, availability, security, and maintainability.

Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives, architectural standards, delivery timelines, and engineering best practices.

Drive defect management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for critical production issues, implementing corrective and preventive actions to minimize recurrence.

Establish and improve application reliability, observability, operational excellence, and incident management practices across business-critical platforms.

Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration challenges, and opportunities for platform reuse, proactively driving mitigation strategies and architectural improvements.

Define and drive engineering quality practices, including test strategy, automation, defect prevention, and continuous integration and delivery.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to prioritize requirements, establish acceptance criteria, and deliver business value.

Evaluate existing systems and solutions to identify functional gaps, modernization opportunities, technical debt, and potential improvements in cost and operational efficiency.

Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and architecture design to implementation, deployment, and production support.

Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations effectively to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Promote engineering excellence, continuous improvement, responsible adoption of AI-powered tools, and a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

What You Will BringStrong experience in software engineering and technical leadership, with a proven ability to deliver complex, large-scale, business-critical applications.

Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into well-defined requirements, technical designs, and actionable engineering plans.

Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and enterprise application development principles.

Strong technical expertise in Java, Python, and JavaScript, with experience in Next.js, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and React for developing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications.

Hands-on experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native architecture to build resilient, scalable, and reliable enterprise solutions.

Experience with cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), to design, develop, deploy, and operate cloud-based applications.

Strong understanding of REST APIs, API Gateway, and API-first development principles to enable secure, scalable, and seamless integration across enterprise systems.

Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, managing dependencies, resolving complex engineering challenges, and ensuring successful delivery.

Proven expertise in production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, defect prevention, performance optimization, and application reliability.

Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and balance scalability, security, maintainability, operational efficiency, delivery timelines, and business value.

Experience defining engineering standards, quality practices, development processes, and operational procedures that improve software delivery and production stability.

Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks early and develop effective mitigation strategies.

Ability to collaborate effectively with product management, architecture, engineering, QA, security, operations, and business stakeholders.

Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers, facilitating technical discussions, conducting design reviews, and promoting knowledge sharing across teams.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and influence decisions across organizational boundaries.

A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities for simplification, automation, platform modernization, and increased engineering productivity.

Willingness to explore and responsibly apply AI-powered tools to improve engineering effectiveness and problem-solving.

A strong sense of ownership, integrity, customer focus, and commitment to engineering excellence, collaboration, and Walmart’s leadership values.

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.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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

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...Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India