DISTINGUISHED, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Walmart Global Tech India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global tech company is seeking a talented individual to provide system-level technical leadership and build scalable AI-powered systems in Chennai. The role will involve owning the software development lifecycle, championing DevOps practices, and fostering a culture of innovation and mentorship. Ideal candidates require a degree in computer science and significant experience in software engineering. This position encourages continuous improvement and aims to create inclusive digital experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 6 years of relevant experience or 8 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience with digital accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) is preferred.
• Strong technical judgment and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Owns execution for specific services or platforms ensuring architectural reliability.
• Leads and mentors engineers across multiple teams, promoting excellence and innovation.
• Identifies and addresses scaling limitations and drives continuous improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud-native systems

AI/ML integration

DevOps

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Position Summary

Position Summary... What you’ll do...

System-Level Technical Leadership

• Owns the execution for specific services, platforms, or pipelines within a larger domain, delivering with architectural integrity and reliability.
• Translates the domain-level strategy into system-level implementation, facilitating alignment across engineering teams and platform stakeholders.
• Drives operational excellence and execution quality through technical guidance, code reviews, and strategic architectural decisions.

Architect and Build Scalable AI-Powered Systems

• Leads the design and development of robust, modular, cloud-native software systems and AI agents.
• Integrates external and internal AI/ML components (for example, reinforcement learning models, goal-oriented agents) for intelligent automation and user-facing experiences.
• Guides architecture choices that prioritize extensibility, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise standards and security requirements.

Own Full Software Development Lifecycle

• Champions DevOps and CI/CD principles across teams, ensuring consistent delivery and operational readiness.
• Ensures services are observable, resilient, and performant with proper instrumentation, logging, and alerting.
• Leads incident analysis and prevention strategies to drive long-term quality and customer impact mitigation.

Foster Culture of Excellence and Mentorship

• Coaches and develops engineers across multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
• Advocates for high standards in design, testing, and delivery practices and mentors engineers on component-level impacts and system-wide goals.
• Promotes and models Walmart’s cultural values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence.

Optimize Systems and Drive Continuous Improvement

• Identifies and addresses architectural bottlenecks, integration challenges, or scaling limitations across systems.
• Champions friction/toil reduction by automating manual processes and improving system developer experience.
• Continuously evaluates and proposes improvements in tools, processes, and methodologies to increase engineering velocity and reduce overhead.

Technical Ownership

• Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives.
• Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion.

Technical Judgment

• Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals.

Change Agility

• 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.

Collaboration

• Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products.
• Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement.
• Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning.
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.

Respect the Individual

• Builds high-performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through a culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all.
• Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent.
• 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.

Act with Integrity

• Makes sure teams follow the law, our code of conduct and company policies; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and models our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action and enables others to do the same; holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts).
• Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware.

Serve our Customers and Members

• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting 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 implementing strategies.

Strive for Excellence

• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model.

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 8 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 4 years' 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

Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India R-2434465