DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About The Team These roles support Project Sparky, an AI-powered chat assistant for iOS and Android platforms. Sparky helps users manage everyday shopping tasks—such as ordering groceries or scheduling car services—by remembering preferences and past interactions to streamline repeat activities. The project is deeply rooted in generative AI and creating the groundwork to move towards agentic AI by enabling personalized, context-aware assistance that evolves with user behavior.

We are seeking a highly skilled Distinguished Software Engineer with deep expertise in designing scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in architecting and implementing complex software solutions that can handle massive amounts traffic and data. They will have technical expertise particularly with distributed systems and microservices, and a proven track record of technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.

What you’ll do:

Lead the architecture and modernization of backend systems, including the design and implementation of real-time, concurrent, multi-user APIs and granular data repositories

Establish and drive governance to standardize enterprise platforms and deprecate legacy or product-specific databases

Direct technical strategy and provide leadership across multiple product teams and senior engineering staff, influencing over authority to align stakeholders and deliver business value

Mentor and guide Principal and Staff engineers, fostering collaboration and technical excellence

Architect and optimize distributed systems and microservices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance

Demonstrate expertise in backend programming languages such as Java, Go or Python.

Leverage cloud platforms to drive cloud-native transformations and migrations, establishing best practices and technical foundations for large-scale infrastructure

Apply strong DevOps knowledge to improve operational, engineering efficiency and deployment processes

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and compliance teams to deliver impactful business solutions

What you’ll bring:

Extensive experience in backend engineering with distributed systems and microservices

Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or domains, including direct mentorship of senior engineers

Expertise in backend languages (Java, Go, Python) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Strong DevOps knowledge and architectural vision for large-scale enterprise systems

Demonstrated ability to drive digital transformation and platform strategy in complex, regulated environments

Join us to help shape the future of our backend systems and drive enterprise-scale innovation through technical leadership and architectural excellence.

15 + years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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. Were a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the worlds largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 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. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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