Senior, Software Engineer
Walmart · Chennai · 6+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-29
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Cassandra, GCP, Java, Kafka
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About the role
Our Advertising Technology team is building an end to end advertising platform that is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to ingest, model and analyse 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.
Responsibilities:
- Through this role you have an opportunity to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the customer and the company.
- You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.
- In this role it would be important for you to professionally maintain all codes and create updates regularly to address the customer’s and company’s concerns
- You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance
- Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently will offer you a chance to grow your skills in a high-pace, high-impact environment.
- Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work
- You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.
- You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Minimum 6+ years of object-oriented programming experience in Java.
- 4+ years of experience in building of large scale data pipelines using big data technologies (i.e. Spark/Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop/Hive/Presto/Airflow).
- 4+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS
- A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Minimum 6+ years of object-oriented programming experience in Java.
- 4+ years of experience in building of large scale data pipelines using big data technologies (i.e. Spark/Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop/Hive/Presto/Airflow).
- 4+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS
- A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Through this role you
- have an opportunity to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the customer and the company.
- You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.
- In this role it would be important for you to professionally maintain all codes and create updates regularly to address the customer’s and company’s concerns
- You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance
- Troubleshooting coding problems quickly and efficiently will offer you a chance to grow your skills in a high-pace, high-impact environment.
- Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work
- You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.
- You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.