Senior, Software Engineer

Walmart; California (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Software Engineer, where your coding skills will impact millions. In this role, you'll develop innovative front-end solutions using JavaScript, React, and Node.js, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences. Embrace the challenge of optimizing performance and share your knowledge with others in a supportive environment. This position not only offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology but also provides a platform for professional growth and the opportunity to shape the future of online shopping. If you're passionate about coding and eager to make a difference, this is the place for you!

Benefits

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Paid maternity and parental leave

Multiple health plans

PTO

Short-term and long-term disability

Company discounts

Military Leave Pay

Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement

Qualifications

• 4+ years in object-oriented design and software development.
• Expertise in building responsive web applications using React.
• Strong communication skills for technical topics.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable React components and manage client data with Redux.
• Measure and resolve performance bottlenecks using various tools.
• Collaborate with product and design teams for intuitive experiences.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node.js

GraphQL

HTML

CSS

Redux

A/B Testing

Performance Optimization

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Chrome DevTools

Lighthouse

WebPagetest

Build Tools

Job description

Position Summary

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists, and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the International Digital Experiences team. Want to change how different countries shop online? Then keep reading!

About You

You are a passionate front-end engineer who loves to code. You love to take ideas and build great products with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You know JavaScript is imperfect, but you embrace its functional side and genuinely enjoy coding with it. You might like to talk about obscure computer science topics, but really, you just want to write simple code and ship new products and features to customers (or improve existing ones). You have an eye for design and user experience. You care about more than just the code. You care about the customer experience and help our customers make better decisions while shopping.

You love learning new things. You love researching new tech and driving forward with the implementation details. Your focus is on frontend JavaScript code, but you can dig in wherever needed. Node.js, GraphQL, NextJS, Nx, build tools, shell scripts, you name it. If you don't already know it, you're ready to learn it.

You understand performance, A/B tests, web vitals, front end optimization and can write code to bring them to life too.

You love helping others. You love sharing knowledge with the rest of your team, building shared tooling for other engineers, giving back to the open-source community, and directly helping customers.

Things You Will Do

• Build reusable React components with modular CSS, manage data on the client with Redux, use react query, and GraphQL.
• Measure and resolve performance bottlenecks, using tools like Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, WebPagetest, or custom tooling.
• Refactor or improve existing code. We constantly find ways to improve all of our JavaScript code and you are all aboard.
• Work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to create amazing and intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together.
• Help put tools, processes, and documentation in place to improve our code quality.
• Demonstrate technical expertise in solving challenging programming and design problems.
• Review code written by other team members or other teams.
• Ship to hundreds of thousands of users every day while having lots of autonomy in terms of code and feature ownership.
• Help out with our Node-based developer platform.
• Share what you know and learn either one-on-one or with lightning talks to the group.
• Work boldly with a sense of urgency; embrace mistakes, learn from them, and drive the team toward success.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in object-oriented design and software development.
• 4+ years of experience in building responsive, single-page web applications using modern front-end JavaScript technologies like React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Thorough understanding of React, Node.JS, and its core principles.
• 4+ years of experience in creating and/or consuming RESTful web services.
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Expertise with unit testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.

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.

Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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. 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.

Primary Location:
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America