Senior Software Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA

Job description

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Here at Walmart, we’re driven by an intellectual curiosity that keeps us on the cutting-edge of user design and a seamless customer experience. We’re intrigued by the opportunity to engineer the most optimal approach that drives conversions and generates consumer loyalty across every touchpoint of the digital journey.

Walmart’s Global Supplier Experience (GSE) group provides a single global platform for Supplier Onboarding and Experience at an unprecedented scale. We are a highly motivated group of engineers, working in an agile group to consolidate supplier data, systems, and services across various markets.

As a Senior Software Engineer of Global Supplier Experience (GSE), you’ll spend your days translating requirements into solutions, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing us with the insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. You’ll oversee small project teams consisting of other engineers who will look to you as a trusted advisor, a subject matter expert who provides guidance and the right tools to get the job done.

Now, imagine doing all the above for the world’s largest retailer. That’s the Walmart experience. Intrigued?

• Assists in providing guidance to small groups of 3 to 5 engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timelines.
• Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short and long term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain.
• Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wireframes); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with the project team and cross-functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring the solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, a possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce the future problems; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action, and completing online documentation.
• Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with the high-level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.
• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

About You

You have and can implement big ideas with a positive attitude. You want to be a part of the team to disrupt this industry and you have these main skills:

• Understand product requirements, develop, and deploy the software application.
• Solid understanding of web fundamentals and full-stack application engineering using JavaScript and relevant frameworks.
• Develop components and modules that add to the pool of re-usable, and platform capabilities for other application teams to leverage.
• Implement performant code using full-stack JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS) over a multi-cloud deployment strategy.
• Write unit test cases to achieve at least 85% code coverage for effective early errors detection using Jest or Mocha.
• Participate in the team code-reviewing process to receive and provide constructive feedback to raise the bar of code before being deployed.
• Add application logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities to help with the operational needs of the application production environment. 
• Analyze and troubleshoot production issues including careful log data analysis and turn around fixes quickly to minimize user impact.

You’ll really wow us if…

• You come to the table with a comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript as well as Agile methodologies.
• You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within it new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
• You level up when you have the opportunity to teach others and empower those around you to excel.
• You strongly believe in automation including code testing code, not just unit but automated testing using frameworks like ProtractorJS.
• You are a practitioner of secure coding patterns and advocate the same across your peers.

You’ll make an impact by…

• Effectively translating requirements into project parameters while working with agility from the cradle to the grave.
• Helping cross-functional teams to solve business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a “best-in-class” customer experience.
• Encouraging the project teams that you oversee to work collaboratively and to aim for insight-driven outcomes. 
   

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 duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Skill Set Additions:

• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, web applications in virtualized cloud environments.
• Ability to design for high performance and high availability.
• Have proficient knowledge and experience with cross browsers compatibility and a strong understanding of browser DOM.
• Demonstrated knowledge of: HTML, CSS, JavaScript including ReactJS and NodeJS
• Unit testing using frameworks like Jest, Mocha/Chai.
• Strong familiarity with source code management tools like git, Github
• Experience developing using databases such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB
• Experience with deployment technologies like Jenkins, or equivalent
• Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux
• 2+ years of Experience with ReactJS/Redux and 3+ years of web development experience.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About The Team

As a member of the Global Supplier Experience group, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and testing code changes required to improve the onboarding and contracting experience of suppliers across all the markets globally. You’ll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of the team, you’ll be able to say that you work for the world’s largest retailer and contribute to the development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.

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.

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.

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.