Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Cloud-Native AI Platform

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness benefits

Live Better U education benefit

Walmart Academy training

401(k) and stock program

PTO and family leave benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Staff, Software Engineer in Bentonville, AR to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud-native transportation platform components. The role blends hands-on delivery with technical leadership across backend and frontend work in distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will orchestrate APIs and microservices, drive architectural choices, and mentor peers while embracing AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery with strong quality and security.

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud-native distributed systems using Java and modern backend frameworks.
• Strong full-stack engineering with modern frontend technologies and backend services.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of software architecture, design patterns, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and DevOps.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted and agentic development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native applications powering Walmart's transportation platform.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader by writing production code and driving architectural decisions.
• Contribute across the full technology stack with roughly 60% backend and 40% frontend responsibilities.
• Build distributed systems, APIs, event-driven services, and modern user experiences.
• Leverage AI-native and agentic development tools to accelerate software delivery while upholding quality and security.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical design reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, business-critical solutions.
• Own solutions end-to-end from architecture and implementation to deployment, observability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Java

Frontend development

APIs

Microservices

Event-driven

CI/CD

DevOps

AI-assisted tooling

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related

Master’s degree in Computer Science/related

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Staff, Software Engineer in Bentonville, AR to design, build, and operate scalable, cloud-native transportation platform components. The role blends hands-on delivery with technical leadership across backend and frontend work in distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will orchestrate APIs and microservices, drive architectural choices, and mentor peers while embracing AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery with strong quality and security.