Software Engineer

Introduction

This is an opportunity for you to be part of a new team that is being stood up now, and you can be a founding member to set the strategy, culture, technology and working norms. It's a unique chance to be an intrapreneur-building something new from the ground up, while backed by the strength of Walmart and leveraging the assets of the world's largest omnichannel retailer.

As part of this team, the Staff Software Engineer will interact with a variety of teams including catalog, pricing, search, checkout, and various other internal teams.

What you'll do


• Develop software systems and solve complex problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.


• Collaborate with and execute major cross-platform executions as a team, or independently when needed.


• Document knowledge and processes specific to your work.


• Utilize strong interpersonal skills in working with numerous internal teams and expand personal and team knowledge of new and upcoming products.


• Contribute to all phases of the development life cycle and write well-designed, testable, efficient code.

• Participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirement); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery.

• Participates in the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the technical lead, product management, business and cross-functional teams; help obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concept; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.

Minimum Qualifications


• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent.


• 8+ years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive web applications.


• 4+ years of Experience with React, NodeJS, and their ecosystems.


• 3+ years of Experience with Apollo and GraphQL, Typescript.


• Comfortable working with Models, Resolvers, and Mutations on the server as well as Queries in the UI.


• Proven ability in building large scale web applications with Single Page Applications (SPA) architecture


• Experience operating software running on a containerized platform (Docker, Kubernetes, etc ).


• Experience in continuous integration and delivery.


• Experience with unit testing and functional automation frameworks (Jest, Mocha, etc ).


• Experience with engineering best practices, including use of design patterns, and code reviews.


• bility to create prototypes from ideas and mockups from wire frames.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively in both independent and team environments.


• Good understanding of version control systems, preferably GIT.