Walmart
Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Search Team
Walmart, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087
Position SummaryAs a Senior Manager, Software Engineering of the Search team, you'll be responsible for designing, implementing, and testing code change required for special business requirements. You'll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of the team, you'll be able to say that you work for the world's largest retailer and contribute to the development of best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.The search group runs a large distributed system powered mostly by the JVM with Java as our primary programming language. We additionally have some use cases utilizing Python, primarily in the machine learning domain. We heavily use Kubernetes, Solr, Redis, Kafka, Spark and NoSQL, among other cutting-edge technologies in our core platform. Experience with these technologies would be advantageous but is not required.About Team
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.What You'll Do
Build, develop and guide high-performing talent for the search ranking platform engineering team.Engage and guide the team technically. Get involved in design and architecture and hands-on coding if required.Own and support delivery for all the features for the search ranking runtime platform.Engage with leadership in Sunnyvale and Hoboken to set up strategy and priorities to maintain the platform.Create a collaborative environment for delivering best services to the customers around the globe.Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for associates who report into you.What You'll Bring
An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream - Computer Science preferred.12 - 15 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems.A good understanding of Java and Microservices.Hands-on experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc).Should be hands-on writing/reviewing design & code.Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of at least one cloud-based project.Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.Mentoring/coaching Staff engineers and other Engineers.Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns, and configurations tools for faster development.Minimum Qualifications
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position: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
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.Primary Location
840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
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Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.What You'll Do
Build, develop and guide high-performing talent for the search ranking platform engineering team.Engage and guide the team technically. Get involved in design and architecture and hands-on coding if required.Own and support delivery for all the features for the search ranking runtime platform.Engage with leadership in Sunnyvale and Hoboken to set up strategy and priorities to maintain the platform.Create a collaborative environment for delivering best services to the customers around the globe.Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for associates who report into you.What You'll Bring
An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream - Computer Science preferred.12 - 15 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems.A good understanding of Java and Microservices.Hands-on experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc).Should be hands-on writing/reviewing design & code.Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of at least one cloud-based project.Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.Mentoring/coaching Staff engineers and other Engineers.Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns, and configurations tools for faster development.Minimum Qualifications
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position: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
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.Primary Location
840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
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