SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Walmart Global Tech; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive awards

Health benefits

Parental leave

PTO

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a senior software engineering leader to own the technical roadmap for pricing, assortment, and promotions applications. You will lead multi‑functional teams, balance cloud-native design with performance, and drive architectural decisions.

You will stay hands-on with design, coding, and reviews while mentoring engineers across distributed teams and promoting CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading Agile/Scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical roadmap for pricing, assortment, and promotions apps.
• Lead large cross-functional projects and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Hands-on design, coding, and review; ensure unit test coverage.

Skills

Java/Spring

React

Kafka

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Agile leadership

CI/CD

Security best practices

Stakeholder comms

Distributed teams

Education

Engineering degree (B.E./B.Tech./M.S.)

Tools

REST/GraphQL APIs

Job description

About Team

Inventory & Merch Tech is the engineering backbone of Walmart's Inventory & Merchandising organization, spanning pricing, cost management, supplier, item, and inventory platforms that support 10,000+ stores and Walmart's global supply chain. Our team delivers a single, unified experience for Walmart’s supplier community across all channels, covering Tier 1 capabilities end to end. Our goal is to dramatically scale assortment while improving supplier efficiency. We operate with high autonomy, a strong engineering culture, and a bias toward clean, principle-based design over quick patches.

What You'll Do

• Define and own the technical roadmap and end-to-end delivery for merchant- and associate-facing pricing, assortment, and promotion applications.
• Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects, translating requirements into technical solutions and directing execution across teams.
• Stay hands-on: develop design artifacts such as proof of concepts and prototypes, write and review code and oversee software design and unit test coverage.
• Build and maintain cloud-native, resilient services using Java/Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, and REST/GraphQL APIs across Azure, GCP, and internal cloud platforms, with a React front end.
• Hire, develop, and retain a strong team of software engineers, owning performance management, career growth, and promotions.
• Own cloud cost discipline for your team's services, balancing performance and reliability against spend.
• Hold the team to a high engineering bar: strong CI/CD, automated testing, and security standards; automate where it pays off rather than by default.
• Partner with product, program, and project managers on plans, dependency tracking, and hand-offs; communicate status, risks, and issues clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.

What You'll Bring

• Engineering degree (B.E./B.Tech./M.S.) in any discipline; Computer Science preferred.
• 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading Agile/Scrum teams.
• Strong hands-on track record in Java/Spring and modern front-end development (React or equivalent).
• Deep expertise in architecture and design patterns, cloud-native microservices, and event-driven systems (Kafka or similar).
• Production experience on at least one major public cloud (Azure or GCP).
• Strong CS fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing, geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Program management exposure: dependency and delivery tracking across teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice To Have

• Experience standing up and scaling an engineering team from the ground up.
• Experience integrating AI/ML/GenAI services into production systems.
• Exposure to supply-chain, retail, or other high-scale, data-intensive e-commerce domains.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or PMP certification.

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 experts 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 7 years' experience in software engineering or related area. 2 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Master'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., 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

Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India