(USA) Staff, Software Engineer
Walmart
Software Engineering
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
USD 143k-286k / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 14, 2026
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
As a Staff Software Engineer – Frontend on the Platform team, you’ll own the architecture and maintenance of advanced frontend frameworks that power marketplace experiences and empower sellers and partners. You’ll design, build, optimize, and monitor platform health; collaborate with product and UX/UI teams; and mentor engineers—using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, GraphQL, and GenAI tooling to shape the future of our platform.About Team:
What you'll do:
- Platform & frameworks: Design and build reusable web frameworks, shared build pipelines, and platform capabilities that many product teams depend on. Own build optimization (bundling, caching, tree-shaking, code-splitting) and developer experience.
- Hands-on engineering: Spend most of your time in code — implementing features, reviewing code, debugging, and optimizing. Set and uphold quality and consistency standards.
- GenAI & agentic workflows: Use GenAI tooling to make developer and platform flows more agentic (e.g., smarter scaffolding, codegen, diagnostics, automation). Experiment with and adopt AI-assisted tooling to improve productivity and reliability.
- Orchestration Layer (OL): Design, implement, and evolve the Orchestration Layer (OL) that coordinates micro frontends, app shell, and shared services. Ensure consistent lifecycle, routing, and integration patterns so applications run reliably at scale.
- Frontend craft: Build responsive UIs with TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Use React with Webpack (or similar) and modern tooling. Apply or extend design systems and CSS approaches (e.g., Bootstrap/Foundation or equivalent) for consistency and performance.
- Data layer & APIs: Work with GraphQL for platform and product data — schema design, queries/mutations, and client integration (e.g., Apollo, Relay). Ensure consistent, efficient data access across the platform.
- Performance & health: Own frontend performance — load time, runtime, and resource usage. Optimize browser storage and memory. Define metrics, monitoring, and practices for app health and performance at scale.
- Architecture & standards: Drive frontend and build architecture decisions. Stay current on frameworks and tooling. Document patterns, conventions, and platform capabilities so teams can adopt them easily.
- Leadership & collaboration: Mentor engineers, lead technical initiatives, and work with product and other platform teams. Represent the platform in cross-team design and rollout of new capabilities.
What you'll bring:
- Frontend: Strong experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React. Solid experience with modern build tooling (e.g., Webpack, Vite, or similar) and frontend performance optimization.
- Orchestration Layer (OL): Experience designing or implementing Orchestration Layer patterns — app shell, micro frontend coordination, shared lifecycle, routing, or similar platform orchestration at scale.
- GraphQL: Experience with GraphQL — schema design, queries/mutations/subscriptions, and client usage (e.g., Apollo Client, Relay) for robust, type-safe data access.
- Platform / build: Experience with build optimization, monorepos, and shared tooling. Familiarity with orchestration tooling (e.g., Nx, Lerna) or similar is a plus.
- Performance: Proven ability to improve load times, runtime performance, and resource usage. Understanding of browser storage, memory, and caching strategies.
- GenAI / tooling: Interest or experience using GenAI tools to improve developer workflows, automation, or agentic flows. Willingness to evaluate and integrate AI-assisted tooling.
- Code quality: Track record of clean, testable, maintainable TypeScript/JavaScript code and thorough code review. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Leadership: Experience leading technical efforts, mentoring others, and making architecture decisions. Good verbal and written communication.
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. Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.
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:
Walmart, Inc. 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, 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 Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. 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. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-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.
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.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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 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, 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.