Senior Manager - Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team

As part of Walmart's International Technology organization, we build scalable, cloud-native platforms that power retail and eCommerce experiences across the African continent.

The International Technology team delivers technology solutions that serve millions of customers across diverse, high-growth markets with unique infrastructure and connectivity challenges. Our teams own omni-channel commerce, supply chain, customer returns, and fulfilment systems — leveraged from Walmart global platform.

We are a team that thrives on solving hard engineering problems at scale — building resilient, distributed systems that perform reliably under varied network conditions.

What You'll Do

• Lead from the front technically — actively participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and critical technical decisions. Be the person the team looks to for engineering clarity and direction.
• Own and drive the end-to-end technical design of services and platforms, setting high standards for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Mentor and grow engineers through hands-on code reviews, design critiques, and engineering deep-dives — not just performance reviews.
• Identify and resolve technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks proactively before they become production issues.
• Set and enforce engineering standards — code quality, test coverage, observability, and operational excellence across the team.
• Drive the team's adoption of modern distributed systems patterns — event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, resilient service mesh
• Ensure systems are engineered for resilience in low-bandwidth, high-latency environments.
• Attract, hire, and retain strong individual contributors — build a team culture where engineering excellence is the norm, not the exception.
• Stay current with the cutting edge — evaluate and champion the right technology choices for long-term platform health.
• Ensure the team delivers with pace, quality, and engineering depth — always.

What You'll Bring

Technical Depth (Non-Negotiable)

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong and current command of backend system design and development.
• Deep proficiency in Java and the Spring/Spring Boot ecosystem — capable of reviewing and contributing to production code.
• Expert-level understanding of distributed systems — CAP theorem trade-offs, consistency models, idempotency, distributed transactions, and failure modes in real-world, large-scale deployments.
• Strong working knowledge of event-driven architecture — Kafka or equivalent message streaming platforms, saga patterns, CQRS, and event sourcing.
• Extensive experience designing and operating cloud-native microservices on Microsoft Azure — AKS, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and related services.
• Solid grasp of API design at scale — RESTful services, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and contract-first design.
• Hands-on experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases — query optimization, schema design, indexing strategies, and appropriate technology selection.
• Deep understanding of system observability — distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), structured logging, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, and incident post-mortems.
• Strong command of non-functional requirements — latency, throughput, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and graceful degradation under load.
• Proven ability to prototype and validate technical solutions — you write code when it matters and the team knows it.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines — Git branching strategies, pipeline-as-code, artifact management, and blue-green or canary deployment patterns.
• Practical experience with container orchestration — Kubernetes at scale, Helm, resource quotas, pod disruption budgets, and production-grade cluster management.
• Strong knowledge of code quality practices — static analysis (SonarQube), unit and integration testing (JUnit, Spock), mutation testing, and test pyramid discipline.
• Strong experience leveraging AI/LLM in production and deriving measurable outcomes using the same.
• Experience with AI driving feature development and ability to operate with AI first mindset.

Engineering Leadership

• 3+ years managing engineering teams of 10–15 engineers, with clear ownership of technical delivery outcomes.
• Track record of raising the technical bar — establishing architecture review processes, engineering guilds, or design standards that outlast individual projects.
• Experience leading teams through greenfield platform builds and large-scale migrations — you've shipped hard things in production.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into crisp technical problem statements and executable engineering plans.
• Strong at unblocking engineers technically — debugging complex production issues, reviewing architectural trade-offs, and cutting through ambiguity with decisive technical judgment.
• Experience working in distributed, multi-timezone engineering organizations — effective async communication and documentation practices.

Nice to Have

• Prior exposure to retail or supply chain domain systems — order management, inventory, returns, fulfilment.
• Experience engineering for low-bandwidth or intermittent-connectivity environments relevant to African or emerging market deployments.
• Familiarity with WCNP (Walmart Cloud Native Platform) or equivalent internal PaaS tooling.

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 expert's 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.

Work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’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., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India