Software Engineer

Our Advertising Technology team is building an end-to-end advertising platform that is key to Walmart's overall growth strategy. We use cutting-edge machine learning, data mining, and optimization algorithms to ingest, model, and analyze Walmart's proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.

Responsibilities:
• Architecture, Design, Development, Reviews, etc
• Walmart scale - exposure to various Walmart business units like Jet, Hayneedle, and Walmart eCommerce.
• Interact with highly skilled Architects community to share and learn new technologies, scale, performance, etc
• Gain hands-on experience to design scalable solutions, work with Walmart business, product
• Gain development experience in a sophisticated, scalable, and high-performing system
• Leverage open source technologies using public clouds; build and mentor engineers; present ideas to larger organizations groups including innovation; foster culture independently to run the team.
• Publish and update technical architecture and user/process documentation.
• Architect, design, build and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers.
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology(POT) evaluations
• Providing technical mentorship & coaching engineers
• Create and recommend solution design options factoring in requirements, standards and the current Infrastructure environment. Communicate and present solutions to the other stakeholders
• Interacting with management
• Playing for features delivery
• Review KPIs, Monitoring, and Alarms for a successful production system
• Production System Review

Requirements:
• An Engineering Degree - B. E/B. Tech/M. Tech/MS in any stream - Computer Science preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in J2EE, Distributed Database, Kafka with solid hands-on multi-threading, functional programming etc.
• A strong understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms and Problem-Solving
• Architect, design, build and deploy cutting-edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers.
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) evaluations
• Lead engineering efforts from rapid prototypes to large-scale applications using a variety of languages and tools/technology stacks.
• Create and recommend solution design options factoring in requirements, standards, and the current Infrastructure environment. Communicate and present solutions to the other stakeholders
• Good debugging and problem-solving capability
• Strong knowledge of SDLC best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, CI/CD, testing, and operations
• Out-of-the-box thinking and being creative in recommending UX to the product team
• Influential communication skills; ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design,
• Hands-on experience in J2EE Technologies, Cloud technologies, and microservices.
• Strong focus on testing during development
• Ability to understand business needs and convert them into the technical solution
• Mandatory Skills: Kafka, Distributed Database, Big Data Knowledge, Java /Scala