Senior, Software Engineer - Creative Platform Team

We are the Creative Platform team, building the tools and platforms that enable the ability to create and manage digital ads across all of Walmart intuitively and efficiently. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for contributing to complex, cross-functional projects from inception, including high-level design. You should be comfortable collaborating with product managers and other software engineers to translate customer requirements and high-level technical requirements into scalable technical solutions. The ideal candidate has both extensive technical expertise and pragmatism with a bias towards shipping.

You should be comfortable taking an end goal and identifying the most critical components to validate the thesis. When you run into bugs / issues, you can quickly troubleshoot and triage issues, coming up with solutions that fix both the underlying cause, and prevent future occurrences of similar issues. You are pragmatic in evaluating tradeoffs, and don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

· You’re a technologist who solves problems in creative ways.

· You have an eye for detail and can articulate the specifics of quality design.

· You are curious and unintimidated to work with architects and staff engineers on projects spanning across the full stack – from implementing back–end services to building front end code and deploying your services.

· You have previous experience in AdTech and understand how to build products that fit.

· You have strong communication and interpersonal skills.

· You focus on end-user impact when you build software.

What you will have:

· 5-7 years’ experience of software development w/ a bias towards backend technologies

· Experience designing and implementing REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot

· Experience designing relational database schemas as well as implementing and optimizing SQL queries.

· Experience utilizing Java Hibernate and optimizing data access with Hibernate.

· Experience with Docker and utilizing Cloud providers to deploy applications and services.

· A willingness to develop tech leading and mentoring skills.

· Experience contributing to technical design documents that communicate implementation plans.

Nice to have:

· Previous experience in the advertising domain

· Knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.

· Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.

Who We Are

Join Walmart and your work could help approximately 220 global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Here at the world's leading retailer, you can make career defining accomplishments, learn new skills, gain experience from virtually every industry and leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail. Discover why we are a world leader in technology, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and community involvement. careers.walmart.com.

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.

Benefits & Perks:

Beyond competitive pay, 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.

We’re virtual:

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting. Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.

About Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000 software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.

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.

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.