STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Mobile App)

Skillset: Mobile apps development, deployment & release management

Location: Chennai

Experience: 10 to 17 years

Our Team:

The EBS People Technology organization supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. 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.

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.

What you’ll do:

• Design solutions such that the processes/applications work in tandem for specific components/modules of a product. Evaluate trade-offs while designing a component based on the business requirements. Assist in conversion of HLD (High Level Design) to create detailed design and detailed functional logic of the modules for specific modules/components of a product.
• Design, develop, and maintain tooling to support cloud-based CI/CD pipelines capable of scaling to thousands of concurrent builds and artifacts.
• Select appropriate frameworks, platforms, and environments for software coding/configuration and scripting. Guide the team on coding patterns, languages, and frameworks in line with evolving trends in the industry (Ex: reactive vs. imperative etc.) and drive scalability and security.
• Support and improve tools for continuous build, automated testing and release management.
• Support and enhance production-like environment to ensure integrated products have reliability, observability and maintainability required for customer deployment.
• Support ad-hoc reviews of software code to ensure baseline mitigations for known risks. Create/configure minimalistic code for entire product/system and ensure the product is meeting business requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability, and high-scalability needs. Oversee the codes executed by team in line with specified technical/business requirements.
• Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), testing or any other process across the domain. Conduct code reviews for code developed by the team. Drive security of the Code Base and ensure that no security violations are introduced.
• Explore relevant products/solutions from an existing repertoire, which can address business/technical needs. Assess gaps/updates/modifications between the customer/business expectations and the existing product/solutions (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration).
• Monitor and evaluate the progress of the projects against approved milestones and timelines. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues/risks, and key dependencies. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholder for creation of project plans. Ensure adherence to the CICD process as per identified schedule.
• Conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzing appropriate metrics; Perform maintenance (corrective, adaptive, perfective) and re-engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis. Evaluate change requests to identify those which are valid and feasible.
• Collaborate and mentor other team members to develop best practices and requirements for the software.

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable applications, platform development and release automation.
• Strong expertise in Mobile apps, DevOps, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, detailed design coding standards and guidelines
• Strong expertise in frameworks like Cocoa, Android application framework, etc. and platforms like Apple iOS, Android, Microsoft Azure, etc.
• Strong expertise in React Native/Expo frameworks
• Solid understanding of Quality, Safety and Security (PCI etc.) standards, emerging tools and technologies, telemetry, CI/CD, Code Management Tools and SDLC
• Strong expertise in integrating analytics, Crashlytics and profiling mobile and web apps.
• Strong expertise in automating the build, test, and deployment processes to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to quickly analyze and resolve release-related issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, Perl or Shell
• Strong experience working on Mobile app build and deployments.
• Solid understanding of GraphQL and REST APIs
• Experience in Azure cloud architecture and deployments and strong understanding of cloud technology, including - Azure Offerings, Cloud storage, Cloud security, Cloud migration.
• Logging and Monitoring experience designing, deploying, and running systems like Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace or other APM solutions.

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.