Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll spend your days translating requirements into solutions, writing code, collaborating with cross-functional teams and providing us with the insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. You'll oversee small project teams consisting of other engineers who will look to you as a trusted advisor, a subject matter expert who provides guidance and the right tools to get the job done.

About the team:

Post Transaction team is responsible for design, development, and operations of large-scale orchestration system operating high scale for walmart.com customer journey after they complete the checkout process. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable, robust technical solutions.

• Leading the work of other small groups engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Troubleshooting business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; formulating an action plan; directing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation.
• Leading the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, design, project management, business and user experience teams; obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concept; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
• Developing Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices by leading internal technical teams; partnering with cross-functional teams across the business; developing assessments of key opportunities; documenting project scopes; developing long-range plans and project timelines; communicating with and influencing decision-makers and executives within the organization; and resolving technology differences across teams through informed discussions.
• Driving the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards, measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Promoting and supporting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.

• 10+ years of experience as an Android engineer
• Expert Android Kotlin and Java skills
• Mentor junior engineers
• Plan, implement, maintain, and lead technical projects
• Caching, logging, performance tuning, monitoring, and scaling
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle
• Unit/UI testing best practices and patterns
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with our product teams
• Comfortable working in a distributed team and communicating asynchronously
• Experience working in a successful agile development team
• Able to take full responsibility for the product - from early planning stages to deployment

• Prior experience with the following is a huge plus:
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • Experience with Splunk
  • Experience in Retail industry
• Prior experience in supporting application by handing on-call supports with L2 availability team during critical business hours.