SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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Job Title:  SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Location: Bangalore

Skills: Java, Microservices, Reactjs, Nextjs

About Team

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) 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 EBS. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering you will bring a successful record of leading large scale, complex, cross-functional software engineering projects. You will be responsible for the hands-on leading and directing of end-to-end project initiatives and teams in tactical and strategic capacities. The role is of a Senior Manager who is motivated to build and lead one or more high performing scrum teams and actively contribute to the architecture and design of new features. The role demands to lead, motivate, mentor and provide ample guidance to the other team members with respect to technical challenges. The role is also expected to make a difference to the product in terms of the innovative thoughts, best designs and contribute towards identifying technical risks and find alternate solutions to various problems. Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and development best practices.  

What you will do

• Manage a high performing team and own the accountability of complete E2E delivery
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
• Should be good in stakeholder and program management
• Establish best engineering practices and operation excellence backed up with product, engineering and scrum metrics
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
• You will be a disruptive thinker who can lead software innovations

What you will bring

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred. 
• 12+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable enterprise products. 
• 3+ years of leadership/management experience with a team of 10+ engineers. 
• Have strong experience in building and managing a high performing team
• Should be good in stakeholder and program management
• Extensive experience building services using these technologies (Java, Springboot, Microservices ,NodeJs)
• In depth knowledge in web technologies like NextJS, React JS, Java script, Type script, CSS
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines is desirable. 
• Should have  good background of different processes required for maintain quality, best engineering practices, CICD etc.
• Excellent in Engineering excellence – code quality, performance tuning, operational excellence etc.
• Well versed in understanding and handling Non Functional requirements (NFR’s)
• Strong experience in running the cloud distributed system in production at least for 2-3 years  
• Knowledge on unit testing frameworks (Junit, Jest etc) and code quality control platforms like Sonar
• Experience in CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins, DevOps
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

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
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.

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