Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart
Software Engineering
Bentonville, AR, USA
USD 110k-220k / year + Equity
Posted on Sep 19, 2025
What you'll do at
Position Summary...
This role involves collaboration with multiple stakeholders to implement business-critical capabilities that directly impact millions of customers worldwide. It also includes building and contributing to platforms in the last-mile delivery domain. This position demands the use of technical expertise to develop effective software solutions, influencing customer experience on a global scale. The role requires strong technical skills, effective collaboration abilities, and a deep understanding of global customer needs.What you'll do...
About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Java applications, you will be a technical leader responsible for architecting, designing, and delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions that power Walmart’s core platforms. You will drive key initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence the technology vision across teams, ensuring the delivery of world-class software solutions.
What You’ll Do
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and leadership across multiple teams and projects, setting best practices and driving the adoption of modern engineering principles.
- Architecture & Design: Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex Java-based systems, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Hands-on Development: Develop, test, and deploy high-quality backend applications using Java (Spring Boot), ensuring robust integration with other services and platforms.
- Collaboration: Partner with product managers, architects, DevOps, and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that align with business goals.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Code & Quality: Champion code quality through code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration, ensuring standards are maintained across teams.
- Innovation: Stay current with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential adoption to improve our platforms.
- Problem Solving: Lead the resolution of critical technical issues and root cause analysis for production incidents.
- Agile Practices: Actively participate in Agile planning, retrospectives, and process improvements.
What You’ll Bring
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience: 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years in a technical or team leadership role.
- Technical Skills:
- Expert-level proficiency in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, etc.).
- Deep experience designing and building RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native application development.
- Proficient in database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with messaging frameworks (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of security, performance optimization, and scalability best practices.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and inspire technical teams.
- Bonus: Experience in large-scale enterprise environments, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), and e-commerce or retail systems, experience with Agentic AI applications.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 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, 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.
