About The Team

You will be a key technical pillar within the Returns engineering team, a group that values highly resilient, defensive coding practices heavily grounded in modern Java ecosystems. We foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical depth, where you will have the autonomy to solve complex architectural problems and make a significant impact on Walmart's global operations.

What You'll Do

System Architecture & Development: Architect, design, and develop sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-high-performing Java-based backend systems with exposure to massive-scale business units like eCommerce, Fulfillment, and Inventory.

Technology Leadership: Leverage modern Java frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), microservices architecture, and public/hybrid clouds to build globally distributed solutions. Lead complex debugging and performance tuning (JVM, memory management, garbage collection).

Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate intimately with our highly skilled Enterprise Architects community to define technical roadmaps, share innovations, and push the boundaries of scale and performance.

Mentorship & Culture: Act as a technical mentor and multiplier, elevating the engineering capabilities of the team and fostering a culture of technical excellence and independent execution.

Innovation & Influence: Present innovative architectural designs and strategic technical solutions to larger organizational groups and leadership, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

What You'll Bring

Education & Experience: An Engineering Degree (B.E/BTech/MTech/MS) in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of deep, hands-on experience in software engineering.

Core Java Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in modern Java (Java 11/17+), JVM internals, J2EE, multi-threading, concurrency, and functional programming.

Distributed Systems: Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, demonstrating deep understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability.

Data & Messaging: Strong command over Distributed Databases (NoSQL/SQL), asynchronous messaging, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).

Cloud & Microservices: Hands-on experience with Cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and containerization.

Engineering Excellence: Profound understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Strong advocacy for SDLC best practices, including rigorous code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and operations.

Communication: Influential communication skills with a proven track record of effectively articulating technical challenges and solutions to both technical and non-technical 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.

Flexible, hybrid 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/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, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India

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