Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...As a Staff Engineer at Walmart, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for solving complex engineering problems and driving technical strategy across multiple teams and products. You will combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to influence architecture, product direction, engineering standards, and execution across organizational boundaries.
You will work closely with Product, Business, Architecture, and Engineering teams to translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions. You will provide technical leadership from problem discovery and architecture through implementation, production deployment, and continuous improvement, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to prototype and build critical solutions.
You will also play a key role in advancing AI-native engineering, leveraging modern AI capabilities and developer tools to improve both customer experiences and engineering productivity

What you'll do...

About Team:

CustomerTechnology : Omni Services - Creating Frictionless End to End Omni channel Customer Journey – Store experience, Digital App, Data insights to power Smooth retail shopping and check out experience to make our customers smile and our developers proud!

The Omni Services at IDC owns several areas of the Store Services in Digital Retail like Wireless, BPO, SIM and ACC . We are responsible for architecture, design and delivery of programs within the areas we own. We work on Backend Technologies hosted on premises , Cloud Hosted and Applications across Web, Android and IOS for Walmart US markets. This eco system uses Core java Technologies, Azure Cloud Technology

What you'll do:

·       Embed directly with Walmart business teams and customers to understand their workflows, uncover high-value problems, and turn ambiguity into clear technical plans.

·       Own complex initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.

·       Stay hands-on across design, development, testing, deployment, and production support, delivering reliable solutions at Walmart scale.

·       Build and productionize AI-native solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, semantic search) with rigorous evaluation, security, governance, and observability.

·       Identify patterns across engagements and turn them into reusable architectures, components, and standards that let other teams move faster.

·       Serve as the voice of the customer to Product, Platform, and Engineering, shaping roadmaps based on what you learn in the field.

·       Lead technically without direct authority: drive architecture decisions, raise engineering quality, and mentor engineers across teams and geographies.

·       Connect every engagement to measurable customer and business outcomes, balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term sustainability

What you'll bring:

·       10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications, platforms, or distributed systems.

·       Strong hands-on system design and architecture experience.

·       Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.

·       Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and design patterns.

·       Extensive hands-on experience with iOS, iOS end to end application

·       Strong experience designing and building RESTful services, microservices, APIs, messaging systems, and data platforms.

·       Experience with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD technologies.

·       Experience with observability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations.

·       Demonstrated experience conducting architecture, design, and code reviews.

·       Strong hands-on ability to prototype and validate technical solutions.

·       Experience applying AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development is highly valuable.

·       Ability to learn and adopt emerging technologies quickly.

·       Strong communication and collaboration skills.

·       Ability to influence and build consensus across teams without direct authority.

·       Strong customer and business orientation

·       Demonstrated ability to drive change and operate effectively in a highly complex engineering environment.

·       Knowledge of Retail Domain will be an added advantage

 

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 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...Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India