SENIOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Walmart Global Tech India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Health benefits

PTO

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech India is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in Chennai. You will design, build, test, and deploy scalable systems and microservices to support Walmart's developer community. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with strong Java and front-end skills.

This position offers flexibility, competitive compensation, and additional perks such as parental leave and health benefits.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms.
• Strong expertise in Java and understanding of JVM internals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and deploy software for distributed microservices.
• Develop and deploy software tools for production issues.
• Collaborate with product owners and designers.

Skills

Java

J2EE

Spring Boot

Hibernate

RESTful services

HTML5

JavaScript

CSS3

React

Node.js

SQL

Cloud-based applications

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Master’s degree in computer science or related

Tools

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Python

Job description

About The Team

You will be an integral part of the Global Technology Platforms (GTP) team at IDC, where you will play a key role in building, enhancing, and maintaining platforms that empower Walmart’s developer community. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing new features, ensuring platform reliability, and driving product stability to meet the evolving needs of our engineers. By focusing on scalability, performance, and intuitive user experiences, you will directly contribute to improving developer productivity and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver seamless solutions, proactively resolve issues, and continuously optimize workflows. Ultimately, your work will have a direct impact on shaping the productivity tools and developer experience at Walmart, enabling thousands of engineers to innovate faster and deliver high‑quality solutions to millions of customers.

What You’ll Do

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for Design, build, test and deploy software for distributed microservices with specific business logic to production with continuous integration frameworks and event driven frameworks.
• Develop and deploy software tools, programs, and metric monitoring processes to address production issues and operational costs.
• Communication is also key as you will need to work closely with product owners, designers, and other engineers.
• Act as a product‑focused Full Stack Engineer, experimenting with new ideas and delivering engaging platform capabilities.
• Perform root cause analysis to solve business‑critical problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Build scalable, highly available distributed systems using modern technologies and frameworks.
• Design and implement RESTful services and platform APIs with a focus on performance, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate and share expertise with the global Walmart tech community to influence and strengthen platform engineering.
• Provide production support, troubleshooting, and resolution for live systems to ensure high availability.

What You’ll bring

• 5-9 years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and platform development.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Strong expertise in Java and deep understanding of JVM internals (concurrency, multithreading).
• Proficiency in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JAX‑R, with solid design and coding skills.
• Frontend development skills in HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, React, Redux, Webpack, Node.js, React Native.
• Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, database concepts, and SQL.
• Hands‑on experience implementing Service‑Oriented Architecture (SOA) and RESTful Web Services.
• Proven ability to build and manage cloud‑based applications.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting tools.
• Experience with storage and messaging technologies such as Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Python.
• Exposure to production support activities, including issue triage, troubleshooting, and resolution.

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

Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects, 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.

Work

This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being inclusive of all people.