STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About the role

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About The Team

Ever wondered what would a convergence of online and offline advertising systems looks like? Ever wondered how we can bridge the gap between sponsored search, display, video ad formats? Ever thought how we can write our own ad servers which serve billions of requests in near real time?

Our Advertising and Marketing Technology team is building an end-to-end advertising and marketing platform that is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy. We use cutting edge data mining , analytics and optimization algorithms to ingest and analyze Walmart’s proprietary online and in-store data, encompassing 95% of American households. Importantly, we build smart data systems that deliver relevant retail ads and experiences that connect our customers with the brands and products they love.

What you'll do:

- Lead the data engineering team in the design, development, and maintenance of our data applications.

- Champion the use of AI in data engineering applications

- Lead efforts for engineering and operational excellence

- Work with the product team to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

- Architect and implement back end solutions that meet the needs of the business.

- Mentor and coach junior developers on data engineering technologies.

- Set and enforce coding standards and best practices.

- Participate in code reviews and bug fixing.

- Stay up-to-date on the latest data engineering technologies.

- Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting multi-billion-dollar business.

- Proactively monitor, identify, and escalate issues or root causes of systemic issues

- Be the consummate team player with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. amazing ability to get stuff done.

- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech

- Work with data science team to implement data analytics pipelines

- Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our platform

- Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design

What you'll bring:

- ·BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 10+ years experience

- Experience with a variety of programming languages and frameworks such as Spark, Hive, BigQuery, Java, Python.

- Experience in bootstrap production and non-prod environments in public/private cloud.

- Solid knowledge of Linux systems with the ability to troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed, multi-tier architectures. Excellent debugging and problem solving capability.

- Good written and verbal communication skills

- Experience collaborating with multiple teams