Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

What you'll do:

* Manage a high performing team of 10-12 engineers who work across multiple technology stacks including Open Stack development or SAP

* Drive design, development, implementation and documentation

* Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics

* Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.

* Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products.

* Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.

* Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products

* Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams.

* Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demo days etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events

* Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within USA and across the globe.

* Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation

* Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance across development and production environments.

* Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in production operations.

* Implement effective observability strategies using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

* Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnerships

What you'll bring:

* Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams.

* Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.

* Hands on experience building Java-Scala-Spark based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable

* A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving

* Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.

* Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC

* Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Possesses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.

* Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.

* Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.

* Experience in working with No

SQL Databases like cosmos DB.

* Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.

* Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka.

* Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.

* Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.

* Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage.

* Familiarity with disaster recovery principles and building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.

Nice to have are:

* Strong experience with RAG frameworks, vector search technologies and knowledge grounding techniques.

* Expertise in Python, ML frameworks (PyTorch, Tensor Flow), and libraries like Hugging Face Transformers.

* Proficiency in distributed computing, cloud platforms (GCP, Azure), and scalable architectures.

* Experience with multi-modal models (text, image, video) and advanced optimization techniques (e.g., quantization, distillation).

* Experience with Generative AI models (e.g., GPT, Gemini) and their fine-tuning.

* Functional knowledge in Finance/Procurement area

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see  Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for…