Software Engineer III - Sam's Club

Position Summary

As a Software Engineer (Back End) you are responsible for developing high performance and scalable Omni Catalog Service that meet the needs of millions of Walmart customers. Design and develop integrations with next generation downstream application that is built largely on an event driven platform implemented via a micro-service architecture. We are looking to bring more intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about technology in general.

Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivaled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services.

Our Catalog Engineering team has built a highly scalable Omni Catalog Service. You will work on Next Gen upstream integration, catalog migration to a new platform, and develop highly scalable catalog micro services.

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Design and implement highly scalable RESTful API backend services which are functional, scalable, and fault-tolerant using Java, RUST and No
  
  SQL/SQL databases
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• Integrate databases like Cassandra, MySQL, and Elastic Search
  , with external RESTful and Graph
  
  QL APIs
  .
• Familiarity with distributed computing technologies such as Apache Kafka
  , or Apache Spark
  .
• Familiarity with distributed cache systems such as Redis, Memcached, or equivalent
  .
• Strong understanding of threading for efficient concurrency management.
• Knowledge of implementing IO and computation tasks efficiently.
• Develop, test, and deploy in Kubernetes, familiarity with Docker and CI/CD using Jenkins.
• Conform to best practices with code changes, test coverage for quality and documentation.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback.
• Manage code and configurations for multiple environments, release management process, creating and maintaining environment configuration and controls, code integrity and security.
• Support new feature software development from investigation to design production implementation and maintenance.
• Gather business requirements, stories and similar artifacts of the scrum process, work in an agile development environment with a quick turnaround time and iterative builds.
• Gather requirements, design, develop, test, and support the software application.
• Analyze A/B test reported results and consumer feedback to identify and fix issues related to software platform.

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in computer science.
• Solid hands‑on experience with object‑oriented and/or event driven systems.
• 2+ year’s experience with C++, Java, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Nice to have knowledge on RUST.
• 1+ year experience in familiarity and proficiency in building RESTful APIs, distributed databases and caches.
• 1+ year any cloud experience using kubernetes.
• Extensive experience developing services using back end technologies.

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.