(USA) Senior, Software Engineer- Front End (JavaScript, React)

Position Summary

As a part of Walmart Global Tech, you will build state of the art personalization and recommendation solutions that will elevate the e-commerce experience of millions of customers. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Walmart+ Member Engagement & Retention team under the Customer Experience organization. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization. If you are someone who feels a personal stake in everything that you work on, has a love for data, enjoys solving complex problems, has a passion for privacy, knows how to foster strong relationships and build trust, and works for the success of the entire team then this is just the right place for you.

What you’ll do

Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.

• Develop features with the highest level of quality by thinking of all the ways that the feature can be broken, with resiliency plans and fail-safe mechanisms in place
• Build performant SPAs using React, Redux, Next.js, NX, React Query, GraphQL, HTML5, JavaScript, Typescript, and CSS3
• Experience in testing frameworks React Testing Library, Jest
• Understand the Business/Customer/Technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs
• Monitor and debug production applications using Splunk, Dynatrace to pinpoint root causes and fix bugs
• Improve the quality of software systems for Walmart.com using industry best practices for code quality, accessibility, and usability
• Assist in the selection of appropriate languages, development standards and tools for software coding/configuration
• Understand cloud technologies and design solutions deployed to Azure, GCP or AWS
• Work collaboratively with other software engineers and teams to improve performance, stability, and resource consumption
• Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration
• Adapt to the Agile development lifecycle methodology
• Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component
• Track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes
• Participate in the discovery phase of small to medium projects to come up with a high-level design by partnering with the product management, Web Operations, project management, business, and user experience teams
• Utilize performance tuning and analytics tools like Splunk, Dynatrace to monitor and identify frontend performance issues and provide solutions to improve performance and scalability
• Create and maintain continuous integration and deployment systems using Jenkins and git
• Apply knowledge of SEO techniques, SEO principles, and modern debugging skills

What you’ll bring

• At least 5 years of experience in Web development
• Extensive understanding of the Web framework components and their respective lifecycles combined with a solid knowledge of multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning
• Experience with building performant SPAs using React, Redux, Next.js, NX, React Query, GraphQL, HTML5, JavaScript, Typescript, and CSS3
• Build reusable Web components, orchestrate user-interactions integrating with backend services via REST and GraphQL APIs
• Experience with software maintenance tools and techniques, application monitoring tools and techniques, debugging tools, mock screen, pseudocodes, reverse Engineering, traceability matrix, system performance, security, integration, data migration and accessibility, design Methodologies, and telemetry
• Wide experience working in multi-module environment projects
• Extensive knowledge of git and continuous integration
• Experience in good app architecture using design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, or Clean
• Experience in working for large corporations
• Experience in working for retail industry

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.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
• Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area and 1 year’s experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location

1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA , United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

Benefits and Notice

Walmart offers benefits including health plans, 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid leave, and other programs. Equal Opportunity Employer information applies to all applicants. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.