SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the team

As part of Walmart’s Stride Transportation Platform team, you will work with some of the brightest engineers and architects to solve large-scale, mission-critical transportation challenges that power Walmart’s global supply chain.

We are building next-generation Transportation Planning, Optimization, Execution & Finance that support Walmart’s end-to-end supply chain network. Our systems optimize freight movement across suppliers, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and stores—moving millions of shipments every year.

By improving transportation forecasting, routing, carrier optimization, and capacity planning, we:

• Reduce transportation costs
• Improve on-time delivery
• Lower carbon emissions
• Ensure products reach customers and stores reliably

The scale—millions of routes, thousands of facilities, real-time constraints, and dynamic conditions—makes this one of the most complex and impactful logistics engineering problems in the world.

If you’re excited about building distributed systems with real-world impact at massive scale, we’d love to talk to you.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineer for Walmart Global Tech, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Manage a high performing team of 5-10 engineers & engineering leads who work across multiple technology stacks including Java, NodeJS.
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
• Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics.
• Designing, guiding and vetting system designs to ensure scalable and robust architecture
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe
• Setting team priorities that support the borader organization’s goals and prioritizing feature development aligned with team’s strategic objectives
• Establishing clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role, meeting regularly to discuss performance, provide feedback and coaching
• Developing the mid-term technical vision and roadmap, evolving it to meet future requirements and infrastructure needs. Leading a team of engineers and tech leads to transform the technical vision into reality

What You’ll bring:

Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 3+ years of experience in managing engineering teams.

• Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.
• Hands on experience building Java, NodeJS based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable.
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
• Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC
• Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Posseses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.
• Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.
• Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos, Azure SQL DB.
• Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.
• Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka.
• Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, OpenObserve and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.
• Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. 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 experts 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity - 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.

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...

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 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. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India