Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture for Walmart Health & Wellness engineering platforms.
- Lead cross-team architecture initiatives, technical RFCs, design reviews, and consensus building.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant, high-throughput distributed systems for prescription, payer, and clinical workflows.
- Establish organization-wide standards for APIs, service communication, data consistency, observability, security, and resilience.
- Drive legacy modernization, incremental re-architecture, and platform-wide technical debt reduction.
- Design platform capabilities, shared services, internal SDKs, and API governance practices.
- Lead scalability, reliability, observability, capacity planning, and incident post-mortem improvements.
- Mentor senior and principal engineers and contribute to hiring and leveling decisions for senior individual contributors.
- Partner with engineering leadership, architects, product stakeholders, and platform teams on technical roadmaps and regulatory requirements.
- Adhere to company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
Requirements
- BE/BTech, ME/MTech, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience is emphasized, with deep hands-on expertise in Java backend development and large-scale distributed systems.
- Expert knowledge of Core Java, JVM internals, garbage collection tuning, memory models, concurrency, Spring Boot, reactive programming, asynchronous programming, and performance profiling.
- Proven ability to design distributed, fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems at 100K+ requests per second.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed caching, API mesh, multi-region deployments, platform engineering, and internal SDKs.
- Experience with OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL federation, and gRPC at scale.
- Advanced relational and NoSQL database expertise, including partitioning, replication, read replicas, consistency patterns, and schema evolution.
- Understanding of HIPAA, PHI/ePHI governance, audit trails, and HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, and X12 EDI standards.
- Expertise with GCP, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, service meshes, multi-region failover, and cloud cost optimization.
- Experience designing observability strategies, defining SLI/SLO/SLA metrics, alerting, chaos engineering, capacity planning, and systemic incident remediation.
- Track record of driving organization-wide technical decisions, authoring RFCs and ADRs, representing engineering in executive forums, and mentoring senior technical talent.
- Minimum qualification may be met through a bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of relevant experience or 6 years of relevant experience.
- Preferred qualification is a master’s degree in a relevant computer science or engineering field plus 2 years of relevant experience.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work with daily work based in the Bangalore or Chennai office.
- Performance-based incentive awards, maternity and parental leave, paid time off, health benefits, and other company benefits.
- Inclusive workplace culture focused on belonging, respect, and equal opportunity.
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About Walmart
More than 60 years ago, Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas. Today, we’re a people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer dedicated to helping people save money and live better all around the world. Our 2.1 million associates are the engine behind what we do — serving customers and members in communities spanning 19 countries, in stores and clubs, online and through a supply chain built for speed and scale. We’re committed to creating clear pathways for associates to learn, grow and advance. Whether you’re starting your first job or bringing years of experience, you’ll find room to grow, learn new skills and build a career with purpose. We’re proud to invest in our people and foster a culture grounded in respect, integrity, service and striving for excellence. Recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® (2025) and Great Place To Work®-Certified™ , we’re proud of what we’re building together.