About Team:

Inventory & Merch Tech is the engineering backbone of Walmart's Inventory & Merchandising organization, spanning pricing, cost management, supplier, item, and inventory platforms that support 10,000+ stores and Walmart's global supply chain. Our team delivers a single, unified experience for Walmart’s supplier community across all channels, covering Tier 1 capabilities end to end. Our goal is to dramatically scale assortment while improving supplier efficiency. We operate with high autonomy, a strong engineering culture, and a bias toward clean, principle-based design over quick patches.

What you'll do:

• Guide the team in architectural decisions and best practices for building scalable, full-stack applications.

• Own technical roadmaps for the team, driving the transition to modern microservices architectures and next-gen technologies.

• Lead system design, development, and code reviews across teams, setting technical direction at the platform level.

• Stay hands-on, writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code across the stack.

• Drive system modernization and legacy migrations without disrupting the customer experience.

• Partner with architects and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within established architectural guidelines.

• Engage with Product Management, Business, and senior leadership to shape priorities and the future product roadmap.

• Partner with engineering teams across geographies to share expertise and contribute to the broader technical community.

• Participate in hiring and build high-performing, agile engineering teams.

• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the quality and technical bar across the team.

• Troubleshoot and resolve critical, platform-level production issues through root-cause analysis, driving durable fixes.

• Support on-call activities and ensure cloud costs stay within threshold.

• Continuously measure and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Adhere to company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10-15 years of experience building and leading the development of highly scalable, full-stack applications and platforms.

• Strong hands-on engineering depth in Java and Spring Boot, with solid proficiency in modern frontend technologies such as React or Angular to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Proven experience designing and implementing REST and GraphQL API web services at scale.

• Strong experience with microservices architecture, distributed systems, and common design principles.

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores, messaging platforms such as Kafka, and caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.

• Experience with container-based development and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Practical experience with cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and CI/CD, using tools such as Git, Maven, and Jenkins.

• Strong testing discipline, including unit, functional, and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito).

• Experience troubleshooting complex, platform-level production issues in large-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

• A track record of growing and leading engineering teams, with strong, influential communication skills.

• A continuous drive to explore, improve, automate, and optimize systems and tools.

Nice to have:

• Experience integrating with AI/ML/GenAI services and components.

• Exposure to pricing, cost, sourcing, or supply-chain domains, or other high-scale, data-intensive retail/e-commerce systems.

• Experience presenting technical strategy and driving cross-org initiatives with senior leadership.

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.

Flexible, hybrid 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.