Staff, Software Engineer (Frontend)

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What you'll do...

About Team: 

The EBS People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience. 

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools. 

The GTA team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer, Frontend. In this individual contributor role, you are expected to be the technical subject matter expert, mentor, and industry leader for creating highly performant, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile applications that exceed customer and business needs. You need to possess outstanding development experience in React Native, React, NextJs, Typescript Node.js with a deep passion for design and customer experience. Also, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems with responsibilities including leading the creation and maintenance of high-quality code, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements, and architecting complex software systems to ensure performance, security, and scalability needs are met. Additionally, the role involves providing hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and establishing and enforcing coding standards through thorough code reviews. 

What you'll do: 

This is a vital role with significant growth prospects. You will have work to do from day one and you will be counted on to create opportunities that align with the overall organization goals. Some of this role’s key responsibilities are but not limited to:  

• Lead, own, and/or support the development of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable front-end applications using React Native and React 
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver software products that meet business goals and user needs  
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers in best practices, design patterns, and development methodologies  
• Providing technical guidance and expertise to ensure the highest level of quality and performance in our front-end applications  
•  Enhancing usage, metrics, and logging details  
• Support CI/CD effort, configuration, and enhancements   
• Support in release, deployment activities, and production support rotation   
• Staying up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the field of front-end development and applying this knowledge to drive innovation and improvement 
• Work in an Agile environment as part of a scrum team   
• Help design end-to-end system architecture for data-intensive applications   
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers, applied researchers and data scientists to iteratively improve integration our GenAI/ML services and refine MLOps practice  
• Support production operations by participating in on-call rotations   

What you’ll bring: 

• You have 10+ years' experience in designing and developing highly performant, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile applications 
• You have a bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, information technology, or related area 
• Expert level knowledge of React, React Native, NextJs, Typescript Node.js   
• Experience in writing effective test cases and test automation   
• Experience in implementing QE strategy, frameworks and automation for mobile and web applications. 
•  Experience releasing mobile solutions to App Store and Google play store, and web solutions to production 
• Experience taking ideas to implementation  
• Deep understanding, and experience of debugging issues in mobile and web applications   
• Experience with data storage and data retrieval   
• Experience with authorization and authentication frameworks in implementing those into mobile and web applications   
• Experience with version control using Git in collaboration settings 
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex issues and optimize application performance  
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders  
• A good understanding of and experience integrating with AI/ML/GenAI services and components 
• Excitement about delivering distributed machine learning systems at scale in production   
• You are thorough and detail oriented   
• You believe in the importance of establishing work standards and leveraging automations   
• You have a history of collaboration, openness, honesty, timely decision making, and clear communication in both verbal and written forms   
• You embrace lifelong learning - always learning new technologies and techniques. You are also engaged in the open-source communities to both find answers and help others   

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 expert's 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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.

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