Software Engineer III - Sam's Club

Position Summary...

Our Sam’s Item Engineering team leverages the Syndigo SaaS solution to onboard and manage product data across individual items, packs, cases, and pallets, ensuring seamless supply chain integration. In this role, you will contribute to the NextGen Sam’s item initiative by leveraging the Walmart item ecosystem to develop highly scalable microservices. You will independently address high-impact software and systems monitoring issues and troubleshoot business and production challenges. As a key member of this dynamic and entrepreneurial team, you'll have the opportunity to work for the world’s largest retailer and play a significant role in driving innovation and developing cutting-edge methodologies that transform business practices and reshape industry standards.

What you'll do...

As a Software Engineer III, you will translate requirements into effective solutions, write code, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will also lead small project teams, serving as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing guidance and the necessary tools to drive success and innovate beyond the status quo.

What You’ll Do:

• Business Problem Solving: Help cross-functional teams solve business problems and develop solutions to redefine a “best-in-class” member experience.

• Project Leadership: Lead small project teams, serving as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing guidance and the necessary tools to drive success and innovate beyond the status quo.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.

• Requirements Assessment: Translate requirements into effective solutions.

• Coding: Write elegant code to implement solutions.

• Troubleshooting and Testing: Troubleshoot and test business and production issues.

• High-Level Design: Develop high-level designs in partnership with product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Front-End Development: Minimum of 2 years of experience.

• Technologies: Experience with React, Angular, or Node.js. Experience with distributed systems and teams.

• Microservice Architecture: Experience with and an understanding of best practices in multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning.

• Refactoring: Experience with refactoring, redesigning, or rewriting existing applications is a plus.

• Development Practices: Disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure within a team.

• Continuous Improvement: Strong desire to improve, learn, and adopt the latest features in React.

Additional Skills (Nice to Have)

• Cloud Technologies: Knowledge of scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments. Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.

• Technologies and Tools: Experience with Kafka Queues, Cassandra, Solr, Elastic Search, SQL. Proficiency in Java, Python, Bash, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop MapReduce. Familiarity with Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins).

• DevOps: Skills in troubleshooting live applications and assessing performance bottlenecks on Linux.

• Cloud Platforms: Working knowledge of Azure, GCP, and OpenStack.

• Big Data Solutions: Ability to develop high-performance and scalable solutions for extracting, transforming, and loading big data.

What You'll Do:

• Help cross-functional teams to solve for business problems and develop solutions that enable us to redefine a “best-in-class” member experience.

• Lead small project teams, serving as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing guidance and the necessary tools to drive success and innovate beyond the status quo

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Translate requirements into effective solutions

• Write Code

• Troubleshoot and test business and production issues 

• Come up with a high- level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience team

What You'll Bring:

• Minimum 2 years of Front-End Software Development Experience

• Understanding of microservice architecture and design, and best practices around multithreading, networking, offline storage, and performance tuning

• Knowledge and understanding of React, Angular, Node.js, and experience working with distributed systems and teams.

• Experience with refactoring/redesigning/rewriting existing applications is a plus (We are in the process of redesigning and refactoring of our current system)

• A disciplined approach to development, code review, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.

• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things to the next level and a passion for adopting the latest features in React

Nice to have, but not required:

• Knowledge of technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments.

• Ability to design for fault tolerance and high availability.

• Have proficient knowledge and experience with Kafka Queues, Cassandra, Solr, Elastic Search, SQL

• Demonstrated knowledge of the following programming Languages: Java, Python, Bash, Spark (SQL, Streaming), Hadoop Map-Reduce experience. Build Manager (Maven), Distributed Version Control (GIT), Continuous Integration (Jenkins) experience.

• Solid DevOps skills in troubleshooting live applications, assessing performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.

• Working knowledge of one or more cloud technologies such as Azure, GCP and OpenStack.

• Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data.

About Walmart

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club in 1983 to meet a growing need among customers who wanted to buy merchandise in bulk. Since then, Sam's Club has grown rapidly, opening more than 600 clubs in the U.S. and 100 clubs internationally. By offering affordable, wholesale merchandise to members, Sam's Club helps make saving simple for families and small business owners. Sam's Club employs about 110,000 associates in the U.S. The average club is 134,000 square feet and offers bulk groceries and general merchandise. Most clubs also have specialty services, such as a pharmacy, an optical department, a photo center, or a tire and battery center.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Sam’s Club 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!

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- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage

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- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance

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- Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. 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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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Live Better U is a company 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.

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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.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00-$180,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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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 2 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 4 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.

Customer Service, 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.

Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location...

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America