Java Backend Developer

Java Backend

We are seeking a talented and passionate Staff, Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a large project environment with solid technical leadership abilities and strong development background in Java along with experience Cloud Implementation architecture and a proventrack record of delivering high-quality scalable software applications.

This initiative involves navigating a complex and dynamic landscape, where we are constantly presented with challenging problems that require innovative solutions. Our vision is to build a best-in-class, reliable, and cost-effective fulfilment platform that significantly reduces delivery times, improves transparency, and elevates both the sellers and customer experience.

With an impressive 250% year-over-year growth, we are already seeing remarkable success. As we continue on this journey, we face a fast-paced, ambitious, and transformative path ahead. Every step we take builds toward setting new standards in fulfilment that will not only enhance the overall ecosystem but also position Walmart as a leader in e-commerce logistics. Our commitment to innovation, efficiency, and excellence will drive us forward as we shape the future of fulfilment for third-party sellers.

What you'll do:

• Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
• Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering
  requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Developing highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms.
• Designing and developing backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go)
• Collaborate with project teams and cross functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide e input on project plan.
• Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
• Provide support to the business by responding to users' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.
• Driving projects of high visibility across the organization.
• Leading team in designing systems and apps.
• Leading team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating
  requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information.
• Leading the discovery phase of projects to produce high level design by
  partnering with the product management, project management, and business
  and user experience teams.

What you'll bring:

• At least 7 years of experience in architecting large scale systems with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, etc.)
• Strong background in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience in leading teams and delivering large scale distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven,
  Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
• Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands on experience with public or private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure)
• Experience using any of the automation toolset like Appium, Selenium, Jira,
  Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling, etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment
  experience is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP,
  Scrum)
• Experience and fluency with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL,
  Oracle, Cassandra, etc.)
• Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
• Understanding machine learning preferred.
• Previous experience in the marketplace domain

Thanks & Regards,

Narendra Kunware

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