Senior Software Engineer

Our Company

If you are thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company with 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries, and $524 billion revenues in fiscal year 2020. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart Global Tech India is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

Do you want to influence how the next 50 years of retail will look like? At Walmart Global Tech India, we’re investing heavily in omni-channel commerce. Come join us if you would like to make an global impact based out of India.

Our Team (Advertising Technology)

Ever wondered what would a convergence of online and offline advertising systems looks like? Ever wondered how we can bridge the gap between sponsored search, display, video ad formats? Ever thought how we can write our own ad servers which serve billions of requests in near real time?

Our Advertising Technology team is building an end to end advertising platform that is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to ingest, model and analyse Walmart’s proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.

Position Description

Job responsibilities

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting multi-billion-dollar business.
• Proactively monitor, identify, and escalate issues or root causes of systemic issues
• Be the consummate team player with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. amazing ability to get stuff done.
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our platform
• Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design

Must Have Skills

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years experience
• Experience in bootstrap production and non-prod environments in public/private clouds
• Experience working on at least one big data technology like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra.
• Experience in secure, scalable and highly available online services
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems with the ability to troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed, multi-tier architectures. Excellent debugging and problem solving capability.
• Experience working with J2EE/Scala or Python
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Good to have skills

• Experience collaborating with multiple teams
• Experience in Big Data applications
• Experience developing with web/app containers such as Apache/Tomcat
• Follows the industry trends in the online world
• Good knowledge of High performance Stream processing, Large Scale Messaging Systems