Sr, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary… What youll do…

About the Team

As a member of the Catalog Engineering team, you will play a key role in building scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems that power how suppliers and sellers create, manage, and enrich catalog content across our global marketplace.

We are looking for engineers who are curious, adaptable, and passionate about solving complex technical problems. Youll work on large-scale distributed systems, influence technical strategy, and help build intelligent solutions that improve the seller experience and drive business impact.

What Youll Do

• Partner with product and engineering teams to understand complex business problems and translate them into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead the architecture, design, development, and deployment of highly scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems.
• Drive engineering excellence by establishing best practices for software design, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Own technical decision-making across multiple services and influence architecture beyond your immediate team.
• Estimate engineering effort, identify technical risks, and drive execution of large cross-functional initiatives.
• Mentor and coach engineers, provide technical leadership, conduct design/code reviews, and foster a culture of continuous learning.
• Identify long-term technical opportunities, simplify complex systems, and proactively address architectural challenges.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends in Java, distributed systems, cloud computing, and AI-assisted software development.

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale products, preferably in product companies or R&D organizations.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and object-oriented design.
• Extensive experience designing and building scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong expertise in Java, JVM internals, multithreading, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, or Cosmos DB.
• Experience with cloud-native application development on public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, monitoring, logging, and production support best practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence within engineering organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with messaging and stream processing technologies such as Kafka.
• Experience with search and storage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Hive, Hadoop, or Cassandra.
• Experience with GraphQL and modern frontend technologies such as React.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and modern engineering productivity practices.
• Experience building global-scale eCommerce, catalog, marketplace, or supply chain platforms.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. 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 e…