Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary…

What you’ll do…

The Senior Software Engineer will encompass the creation of robust, scalable APIs, services, and applications. These will be instrumental in assisting business teams to satisfy customer needs with timely, accurately priced products.

About Team:

Walmart’s Global Tech Merchandising team collaborates with both US Walmart and international markets to construct a comprehensive analytical platform that caters to the diverse requirements of users across all geographies.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, working closely with researchers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to comprehend their needs, gather requirements, and develop AI-powered solutions. Ensuring AI models and systems align with regulatory and industry standards by partnering with domain experts.

• Lead by example a team of 3-4 members. Show your chops as an exceptional and experienced developer.

• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.

• Preparing and maintaining technical documentation, reports, and presentations to effectively communicate AI methodologies, results, and recommendations to diverse audiences.

• Staying informed about the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, industry trends, regulatory guidelines, data privacy, and ethical considerations related to AI applications in the Retail domain.

• Identifying short and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions, implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.

• Provides support to the business for new and existing systems by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of own domain.

• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 7+ years of experience building scalable applications.

• Experience designing large-scale distributed platforms and/or systems in cloud environments such as Azure or GCP.

• Familiarity with GenAI technology stack, including frameworks for prompt engineering, guardrails for GenAI applications, and LLM fine-tuning.

• Experience working with VectorDBs and other data infrastructure required to efficiently support Generative AI training pipelines and production applications

• Experience training and maintaining large language models

• Utilize libraries like to integrate a pre-trained Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model like GPT-4 or GPT 4o or Gemini

• Develop a text pre-processing module to handle user input, cleaning and formatting text for optimal model performance

• Implement an API endpoint using a framework like Flask or FastAPI to receive user prompts and send them to the Gen AI model

• Integrate a safety module to filter out potentially harmful or biased outputs from the model

• Serve as a communication layer between the React frontend and the Python Backend

• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins and Maven.

• Strong experience interfacing with Web Services platforms

• Strong expertise in development of scalable cloud native microservices

• Strong expertise in designing and building APIs

• Strong expertise with Cloud Technologies like Azure and GCP

• Strong Expertise in Python, Java, Design Patterns

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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 expert’s 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 every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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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.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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– Stock

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Minimum Qualifications…

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Preferred Qualifications…

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year’s experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location…

805 Se Moberly Ln, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America