Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team

Walmart’s Corporate Tech and Services is a powerhouse of several exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart.  

As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is Corporate Tech. Joining this team means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

What you'll do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex, high-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams and technology domains.
• Design and develop scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing enterprise applications that deliver measurable customer and business value.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven platforms, and cloud-native solutions.
• Drive end-to-end technical solutions across backend, frontend, data, cloud, and AI, balancing scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost.
• Apply strong computer science fundamentals, system design, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to solve complex engineering problems.
• Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews, establishing engineering standards and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Build and integrate Generative AI and LLM-powered solutions, including RAG, AI agents, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Design production-ready AI/ML and agentic systems, incorporating model selection, prompt/context engineering, embeddings, vector search, tool calling, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human oversight.
• Leverage platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Google Gemini to deliver secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready AI capabilities.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data, Security, Privacy, Architecture, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into simple, scalable technology solutions.
• Drive modernization, automation, performance optimization, cloud cost optimization, and technical debt reduction across platforms.
• Champion security and privacy by design, ensuring solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and data protection requirements.
• Establish engineering excellence through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, logging, monitoring, reliability, and operational best practices.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues through root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raise the technical bar, and foster a culture of innovation, ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities and translate them into practical, measurable enterprise solutions.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale enterprise applications.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Strong frontend experience with React.js and TypeScript.
• Strong foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns, and System Design.
• 4+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Strong experience with databases, data modeling, caching, messaging, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong Python development skills, particularly for automation, data, AI/ML, and GenAI applications.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and agentic workflows.
• Experience with prompt engineering, context engineering, embeddings, vector databases, tool/function calling, model evaluation, guardrails, and LLM observability.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication/authorization, secure coding, privacy, and data protection.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or similar software development methodologies.
• Experience in retail, ecommerce, finance, or other large-scale enterprise environments is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical direction across teams without direct authority.
• Strong ability to simplify complex problems, make sound technical decisions, and balance business value, engineering excellence, scalability, and delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, architects, product leaders, and business stakeholders.

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.

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/Chennai] 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 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.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India