- Senior
- Office in Chennai
Position Summary...
We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to design, develop, and scale enterprise-grade platform solutions that power business-critical applications. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in building distributed systems, APIs, and microservices using modern technology stacks, while collaborating across global teams. This role demands strong hands-on skills, technical depth, and a passion for delivering robust, high-performing software.What you'll do...
About the team
You will be an integral part of the Global Technology Platforms (GTP) team at IDC, where you will play a key role in building, enhancing, and maintaining platforms that empower Walmart’s developer community. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing new features, ensuring platform reliability, and driving product stability to meet the evolving needs of our engineers. By focusing on scalability, performance, and intuitive user experiences, you will directly contribute to improving developer productivity and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless solutions, proactively resolve issues, and continuously optimize workflows. Ultimately, your work will have a direct impact on shaping the productivity tools and developer experience at Walmart, enabling thousands of engineers to innovate faster and deliver high-quality solutions to millions of customers.
What You’ll Do:
We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Engineer- Full Stack who is passionate about building scalable, high-performing, and resilient platform solutions. In this role, you will act as a product-focused engineer, experimenting with new ideas, delivering engaging platform capabilities, and collaborating across global teams to strengthen Walmart’s technology ecosystem.
You will play a key part in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems that power our mission-critical applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and innovation at scale
- Act as a product-focused full stack engineer, contributing to platform design, innovation, and delivery.
- Build scalable and distributed systems using modern frameworks and cloud-native architectures.
- Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and microservices with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and reliability.
- Conduct root cause analysis to resolve business-critical issues and identify areas for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with global engineering teams to share best practices and influence platform direction.
- Provide production support, including troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving live issues to maintain system availability.
- Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and alerting for production systems.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams (product, UX, and DevOps) to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.
What You’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 9+ years of experience .
- Strong proficiency in Spring Boot (REST APIs, dependency injection, configuration management).
- Expertise in Java / J2EE, with deep understanding of JVM internals, concurrency, and multithreading.
- Experience with Spring Data JPA / Hibernate, ORM optimization, and database transaction management.
- Proficient in PostgreSQL, query tuning, indexing, and caching strategies (Redis, Ehcache).
- Hands-on with microservices architecture, inter-service communication (REST, gRPC, messaging).
- Experience implementing security mechanisms (Spring Security, OAuth2, JWT).
- Knowledge of Kafka / RabbitMQ for event-driven architecture.
- Familiarity with Liquibase/Flyway for database migrations.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
- Strong foundation in React.js (hooks, component lifecycle, context API).
- State management expertise with Redux / Redux Toolkit.
- Solid JavaScript (ES6+) / TypeScript skills.
- Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and responsive UI frameworks (Material-UI, Ant Design, Tailwind).
- API integration experience using REST or GraphQL.
- Experience with performance optimization (memorization, lazy loading, code splitting).
- Strong computer science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
- Familiarity with cloud-based application development (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks.
- Knowledge of Elasticsearch and Python is an added advantage.
- Exposure to production support operations including incident response, triaging, and resolution.
- Advanced certifications in Cloud, DevOps, or Full Stack technologies (preferred).
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.
Work
Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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
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 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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.
Master’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
