Senior Manager, Software Engineering

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead our team of talented software engineers for Marketplace Returns. As the Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development, testing, and deployment of software solutions using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and REST APIs. Additionally, you will be involved in designing and implementing microservices architectures and event‑driven architectures.

Returns platform:
Our team is responsible for the design, development and operations of the Returns platform for Walmart. We focus on building a cutting‑edge returns service for the customer which seamlessly integrates with multiple systems in the supply chain to provide a seamless customer return experience. We also have an ambitious goal of integrating a multi‑system returns experience into one common platform across e‑commerce, stores and marketplace in the coming year.

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 , 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.

• Build, develop and guide a team of high‑performing talent.
• Participate in technical design & reviews, PoCs.
• Be accountable for engineering practices in the team: technical design, CI‑CD, automation of functionality using mock regression suites, code quality, and planning & delivering features.
• Work with business stakeholders, architects, UX designers, product & program managers.
• Work with global teams to deliver industry‑leading capabilities.
• Identify and convey risks & issues to the leadership and help drive mitigation.
• Raise the bar for the team on technology with predictable & consistent deliveries.
• Good knowledge of Agile practices, Dev Ops using Gen AI methodologies.

Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure robust, scalable, and secure platform deployments.

• At least 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, mentoring and leading teams.
• Proven experience in building high‑performance teams and scalable best‑practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization.
• Excellent logical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience in Distributed Systems Design for fault tolerance and high availability.
• Experience in event‑based scalable async architecture.
• Experience in multi-threading for speeding up computations on multi-core processors.
• Experience building for "as a service" model where components are multi‑tenant, customizable and can be leveraged across Walmart's business verticals.
• Experience in cloud‑native distributed application patterns and tools, micro‑services architectures and web application frameworks (React, Java, Spring Boot, EDI, Kafka, No
  
  SQL DB's), application migrations to any cloud platform.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for high scale, availability, testability and extensibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.

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…