Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary...Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team:

The success or failure of an e-commerce business hinges significantly on its pricing strategy. It serves as a powerful tool for shaping consumer behaviour, boosting sales, and ultimately influencing profitability and market positioning.

Our team manages real-time pricing for all items featured on walmart.com, groceries.walmart.com, and across all Walmart stores. The critical role of pricing in Walmart's business is evident, presenting complex challenges in Systems Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science. Designing and engineering software systems and algorithms capable of handling millions of user requests, processing hundreds of millions of data rows, and managing billions of messages and updates are integral aspects of our daily responsibilities. To tackle these challenges, we utilize cutting-edge open-source technologies, making our team a hub for the best-in-class tools. Working with us provides the opportunity to address these core issues, engineer large-scale systems, and have a substantial impact on Walmart's business.

What you'll do:

• B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech / MCA with 8+ years of product development experience in various technologies and domain.

• At least 2 years of people manager experience.

• Ability to build highly scalable, resilient and end to end product.

• Versatile experience in building large scale distributed systems, multi service architecture, UI development and Mobile App development.

• Experience of building end-to-end products with various technologies like Java, Spring, REST API, Springboot, Kafka, SQL, Javascript, Android/iOS and having knowledge of NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, CosmosDB, etc. are a plus.

• Knowledge of mobile stack (Android, iOS, React Native) will be a plus.

• Should have managed business-critical applications (Tier-0 applications)

• Ideal candidate should be hands-on in design review, solutioning the product and comfortable reviewing the code & logic.

• Knowledge of high availability, cloud distribution, cloud deployment, hot-cold environment, data consistency.

• Strong in following engineering practices like code review, unit testing, static analysis, automation, CI-CD, alerting & monitoring.

• Project management experience in planning & execution with Agile Scrum or SAFe / Scaled Agile.

What you'll bring:

• Ownership of key engineering deliverables.

• Hire, coach, inspire and motivate engineers and leaders in the team.

• Facilitate and guide team member in their technical skills.

• Prioritize and delegate tasks to the team.

• Ability to manage various stake holders – product managers, program managers, scrum masters, engineering managers – across various geo location.

• Experience in performance evaluation, appraisal, promoting team members and giving constructing feedback to the team members.

• Collaborate with cross-functional peers and leaders to deliver projects

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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.

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.

Primary Location...4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India