About the position
Walmart's Associate Experience Platform team is seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to strengthen our GenAI experience platform. You will be hands-on developing critical platform capabilities with cutting-edge GenAI technologies, building reusable and extensible platform services, and ultimately bringing GenAI to the day-to-day of 2.2M Walmart associates worldwide. The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech's Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of platform features with microservices (Fast API) and event-driven (Kafka, SSE, WebSocket) architecture.
- Uphold the engineering and operational excellence standards and embrace automation following DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.
- Stay up to date with GenAI and adopt new solutions and best practices.
- Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to bring cutting-edge GenAI research into application.
- Be an active member of a dynamic team.
- Support production operations by participating in on-call rotations.
Requirements
- Python Guru that embraces Pythonic way of thinking.
- Exceptional at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python.
- Hands-on experience designing and building Python-based web services in production setting.
- Familiar with version control using Git in collaboration settings.
- Comfortable working with Linux and containers.
- 4+ years of industry experience along with a proven track record of ownership and delivery.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with developing GenAI-based applications.
- Experience with JavaScript (React, Node.js).
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines in online advertising, recommender system, e-commerce, or relevant areas.
- 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.
- Knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Multiple health plans
- Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U education benefit program
