4 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the incremental decomposition of a controller-centric Spring Boot service into well-bounded domain services.
- Lead platform engineering through scalable infrastructure, reusable tooling, and cloud-native architecture.
- Own Compass platform architecture, including APIs, service boundaries, caching, data stores, resilience, and multi-region active/active disaster recovery.
- Design and evolve multi-tenant configurations, maps, APIs, and platform capabilities for new chains and formats.
- Build and review backend Java, web React/TypeScript/Node.js, and mobile Kotlin/Swift SDK code.
- Drive Kafka scale and performance, API latency, caching strategy, and BigQuery data-pipeline cost optimization.
- Lead full software development lifecycle activities across coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and change management.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, vendors, and partner-app teams.
- Improve testing maturity, observability, alerting, canary deployments, runbooks, and on-call health.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience building and operating production distributed systems is requested in the role description.
- Minimum qualifications are either a bachelor's degree in a relevant field plus 5 years of software-engineering experience, or 7 years of software-engineering experience.
- Deep Java, Spring Boot, REST API design, PostgreSQL, and JPA experience.
- Strong TypeScript, Node.js, and React experience, including server-side rendering and single-page application tradeoffs.
- Experience with Kafka producers and consumers, partitioning, dead-letter queues, retries, and idempotency.
- Data-engineering fundamentals including BigQuery, SQL, Airflow, Spark, or Dataproc-style batch pipelines.
- Experience with Kubernetes, progressive or canary delivery, secrets management, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven experience leading architecture across teams, writing architecture decision records, and mentoring engineers.
- Experience designing multi-region active/active systems and disaster recovery.
- Experience with unit, functional, integration, end-to-end, contract, and load testing.
- Hands-on Kotlin/Android and/or Swift/iOS mobile SDK development, including API versioning and distribution practices.
- Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, distributed caching, CDN invalidation, and change-management releases.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant master's degree plus 3 years of software-engineering experience and familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k), stock purchase plan, company-paid life insurance, and performance-based bonuses.
- Paid time off, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and PTO/PPTO for vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and other benefits.
- Live Better U provides eligible associates with company-paid education programs, including high school completion, bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and certificates.
- Full-time position located in Sunnyvale, California; benefit eligibility depends on job classification, length of employment, and applicable plan terms.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAzureElasticsearchGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleGraphQLiOSJavaJestJUnitKotlinKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLReactSpring BootSQLSwiftTypeScript
About Walmart
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