Walmart Global Tech's Marketplace Engineering team is looking to redefine global commerce at scale by improving the Walmart Marketplace, a platform where third-party sellers connect with millions of customers. The specific focus is on revolutionizing how third-party sellers manage fulfillment, aiming to streamline shipping configurations, enhance customer satisfaction, expand product selection, and ensure accurate delivery promises. The goal is to build a best-in-class, reliable, and cost-effective fulfillment platform that reduces delivery times, improves transparency, and elevates the experience for both sellers and customers, all while handling significant year-over-year growth.
Requirements
- Experience in architecting large scale systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
- Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, etc.)
- Strong background in algorithms and data structures.
- Experience in leading teams and delivering large scale distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
- Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
- Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
Responsibilities
- Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
- Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
- Developing highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
- Designing and developing backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go)
- Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
- Leading team in designing systems and apps.
- Leading team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information.
Other
- At least 9 years of experience
- Experience using any of the automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured, AssetJ , Gatling, etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment experience is a plus.
- Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, Scrum)
- Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
