3 days ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical design for complex initiatives spanning API contracts, UI interfaces, data models, distributed systems, and cross-cutting concerns.
- Define reference architectures, design patterns, implementation guardrails, RFCs, and architecture decision records for platform standardization.
- Write, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade software across the full software development lifecycle.
- Solve complex performance, reliability, scalability, and ambiguity-related problems while enabling other engineers.
- Lead technical investigations and root-cause analysis for P0/P1 incidents and define permanent fixes.
- Design resilient, observable systems and create runbooks and operational playbooks for service operations.
- Use AI-augmented workflows for schema design, coding, testing, documentation, incident analysis, and API design feedback.
- Architect AI-native capabilities such as intelligent API health monitoring, AI-assisted seller onboarding, smart alerting, and anomaly detection.
- Advocate for AI-augmented engineering through demos, pairing, guides, and organization-wide investment recommendations.
- Raise technical quality across teams through code reviews, design feedback, technical talks, pairing, and strategic architectural decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus 6 years of software engineering or related experience, or 8 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and system design for complex, distributed, large-scale platforms.
- Experience writing production software and owning design, development, testing, deployment, and observability.
- Ability to lead incident response, root-cause analysis, reliability initiatives, and technical investigations.
- Proficiency with GitHub Copilot, Wibey, and LLM-based development tooling.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant field plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
- Preferred: knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and accessible product development.
Benefits
- Incentive awards may be available based on performance.
- Benefits include maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and other benefits.
- The role is based in Walmart’s Chennai office for daily work, with flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
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About Walmart
Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer that sells groceries, general merchandise, and services through Walmart and Sam's Club stores and online marketplaces for consumers and small businesses. Its model spans physical retail, e-commerce, advertising, and a vast supply chain, plus pharmacy, health, and financial services. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Inc. is a public company on the NYSE (WMT) operating in the U.S. and multiple international markets.