Software Engineer III

What you'll do...

Position: Software Engineer III

Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Assists in providing guidance to small groups of two to three engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timeline. Requirement And Scoping Analysis: understand the Business/Stakeholder/Technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs (in case of agile methodology, for the iteration). Prepare requirement traceability matrix and maintain traceability between business requirements, functional requirements, design and test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements (for example: based on scalability etc.) (For agile methodology). Coding: create/configure minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the components are meeting business/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availability and high-scalability needs. Assist in the selection of appropriate languages (E.g. JavaScript, Python, C# etc.), development standards and tools (E.g. Monday.com, Linx, Embold etc.) for software coding/configuration. Take initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work. Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), Testing or any other process (as applicable). Implement telemetry features as required independently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: map the customer requirements in to test objectives. Identify and create test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entire component. Execute different types of testing using appropriate testing tools based on the testing needs.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field plus 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Developed Java application using microservices architecture, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and Spring Cloud as backend tools and Angular and React as frontend tools. CI/CD pipeline development using Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins, and automated build and deployment practices. Containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes in cloud environments. Deploying and maintaining Cloud applications across AWS, Azure, and enterprise cloud platforms. API design, development, and testing using RESTful and GraphQL APIs, including endpoint validation and integration testing. Performing automated testing and quality assurance using functional and integration testing frameworks such as Selenium and Cucumber. Frontend application development using JavaScript frameworks, state management libraries, and build tools. Monitoring, logging, and observability using centralized dashboards, alerts, and log analysis tools using OpenObserve, Splunk and Grafana. Implementing Relational and NoSQL database, Elasticsearch design, development, integration, data modeling, and data consistency management across distributed applications. Building and deploying agentic AI solutions using LLMs and OpenAI Agents SDK and specializing in multi-agent orchestration using Python with Hugging Face, Ollama, and event-driven APIs. Designing and orchestrating scalable data integration and transformation pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.