We are looking for a Senior Distinguished Architect with expertise in Native Mobile Platform and an enterprise architect experience to join Walmart Commerce Platform Engineering team. This is a hands-on role requires expert coding skills, strong architecture and design, deep focus and experience on operational excellence, and the ability to guide and mentor engineering leaders and teams. You will play a critical role in leading, designing, and developing business and technology initiatives that solve mission critical business problems for Walmart customers at the scale of several eCommerce businesses.
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
- As the Sr Distinguished Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, mentor and guide engineering professionals, and drive innovation to deliver high-quality, scalable, and robust software solutions.
- To lead the architecture vision of Walmart eCommerce Platforms on the mobile apps and run the technical platform being used by 7+ businesses
- Lead, design and develop Native Android and iOS-based applications, with owning central platform level capabilities and architectures. Define patterns and paradigms to be used by about 1800 engineers in various teams.
- Lead, mentor and guide engineering leaders and teams
- Stitch together requirements and enterprise architecture to drive solutions and strategies that drive the platform for years
- Lead metrics such as Operational Stability, Developer Productivity and Performance
What you'll bring:
- At least 9 years of overall experience in software engineering for Android or iOS platform within a large-scale enterprise architecture.
- 5+ years of experience designing architecture for Android or iOS platform integrating with a large-scale enterprise architecture
- Experience developing and testing mobile clients either Android + Kotlin or iOS + Swift. Applicants should be vertically very deep in one of the platforms between Android or iOS and should have very good operating knowledge of the other platform.
- Experience in mobile architectures including Model View Controller (MVC), Model View View-Model (MVVM), and VIPER. Experience publishing and managing dependencies using Maven and Gradle build systems.
- Expertise on Git, Jenkins and Mobile App release management.
- Experience with multi-tenant app development and resulting architecture paradigms.
- Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.
- Experience navigating A/B test platforms, and decisions required to handle/mitigate the tests.
- Experience with monitoring mobile app performance using Splunk, Grafana and Google/Apple provided dashboards, stability using Firebase Crashlytics, success rate and leveraging data to improve the same.
- Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing code reviews.
- Operating knowledge and experience with public cloud technologies such as Azure OR Google Cloud Platform. Should be able to stitch together an architecture and conform to Mobile Apps’ needs
- Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment.
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 duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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.
Benefits & Perks
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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
