STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary... What youll do... About the Team What You Will Do

• Lead requirements gathering, scoping, and analysis for complex business-critical applications, translating business needs into clear, actionable engineering requirements.
• Drive solution design and architectural decisions, ensuring solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements for scalability, performance, availability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives, architectural standards, delivery timelines, and engineering best practices.
• Drive defect management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for critical production issues, implementing corrective and preventive actions to minimize recurrence.
• Establish and improve application reliability, observability, operational excellence, and incident management practices across business-critical platforms.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration challenges, and opportunities for platform reuse, proactively driving mitigation strategies and architectural improvements.
• Define and drive engineering quality practices, including test strategy, automation, defect prevention, and continuous integration and delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to prioritize requirements, establish acceptance criteria, and deliver business value.
• Evaluate existing systems and solutions to identify functional gaps, modernization opportunities, technical debt, and potential improvements in cost and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and architecture design to implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations effectively to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Promote engineering excellence, continuous improvement, responsible adoption of AI-powered tools, and a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

What You Will Bring

• Strong experience in software engineering and technical leadership, with a proven ability to deliver complex, large-scale, business-critical applications.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into well-defined requirements, technical designs, and actionable engineering plans.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and enterprise application development principles.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, Python, and JavaScript, with experience in Next.js, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and React for developing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications.
• Hands-on experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native architecture to build resilient, scalable, and reliable enterprise solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), to design, develop, deploy, and operate cloud-based applications.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, API Gateway, and API-first development principles to enable secure, scalable, and seamless integration across enterprise systems.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, managing dependencies, resolving complex engineering challenges, and ensuring successful delivery.
• Proven expertise in production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, defect prevention, performance optimization, and application reliability.
• Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs and balance scalability, security, maintainability, operational efficiency, delivery timelines, and business value.
• Experience defining engineering standards, quality practices, development processes, and operational procedures that improve software delivery and production stability.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks early and develop effective mitigation strategies.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product management, architecture, engineering, QA, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers, facilitating technical discussions, conducting design reviews, and promoting knowledge sharing across teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and influence decisions across organizational boundaries.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities for simplification, automation, platform modernization, and increased engineering productivity.
• Willingness to explore and responsibly apply AI-powered tools to improve engineering effectiveness and problem-solving.
• A strong sense of ownership, integrity, customer focus, and commitment to engineering excellence, collaboration, and Walmart s leadership values.

Minimum Qualifications... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years experience in software engineering or related area. Preferred Qualifications... 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 Primary Location... Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India