Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Walmart Inc. is a leading retail corporation seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance their platform capabilities and drive software development initiatives. The role involves delivering infrastructure and tooling, mentoring engineers, and integrating AI-driven applications to improve engineering productivity and support business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Delivers platform capabilities within a sub-organization or technical area, including infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks (for example, CI/CD, SDKs, model runtimes, feature stores)
- Aligns development efforts with roadmap milestones and domain priorities to ensure cohesive execution
- Applies cloud-native architecture principles (for example, microservices, containers, automation) to achieve scalability, resilience, and agility across systems
- Drives the full software development lifecycle: coding, testing, CI/CD deployment, observability, monitoring, and maintenance
- Leads infrastructure and tooling development to accelerate engineering productivity, enhance developer experience, and support platform goals
- Conducts system design reviews to validate feasibility, ensure quality, and confirm alignment with project goals and architectural best practices
- Builds AI-driven applications and intelligent automation features using languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Dart, and C++
- Integrates AI agents and ML components that support multi-step reasoning and automation using platforms like GitHub Copilot
- Applies design patterns and principles to ensure solutions are secure, maintainable, modular, and scalable
- Mentors engineers and junior leaders across teams, fostering technical growth, psychological safety, and continuous learning
- Influences architectural and technical decisions, advocating for standardization, reusability, and long-term sustainability
- Enables team members through delegation, documentation, developer tool selection, and design guidance
- Engages product and business stakeholders to identify and refine complex user problems, converting them into actionable technical requirements
- Breaks down work into well-scoped, actionable units ready for engineering execution
- Uses data-driven engineering practices to define and track success metrics, optimize development processes, and maintain engineering excellence
- Contributes to API design and software prototyping to validate technical solutions and gather early feedback
- Facilitates correction-of-error review processes to continuously improve code quality and reduce defect recurrence
- Stays current with industry trends and contributes to engineering thought leadership through documentation, tool evaluations, and internal knowledge sharing
- Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives
- Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion
- Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals
- Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context
- Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes
- Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products
- Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement
- Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in workplace
- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy
- Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events
- Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members
- Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments
- Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action
- Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members
- Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy
- Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
- Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area
- 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area
- Background in creating inclusive digital experiences
- Demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards
- Knowledge of assistive technologies
- Integrating digital accessibility seamlessly
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical, vision and dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
- Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
- Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : Stock
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