**Position Summary...** **What you'll do...** Join Walmart Global Tech as a **Senior Software Engineer, Backend** , where you will build and enhance scalable systems that power seamless digital experiences for millions of customers worldwide. You will work across diverse systems and domains, contributing to the design and development of critical backend services that support Walmart’s digital ecosystem—from checkout and fulfillment to user engagement journeys. **About the Team** Our team partners closely with our U.S. Stores and Walmart Health & Wellness businesses to better serve customers by empowering associates, pharmacies, and clinics through technological innovation. Whether customers engage with clinicians online via Walmart.com, through our mobile apps, or in-store, Walmart Health & Wellness delivers an extensive suite of services that customers and patients value. **What You'll Do** + Architect, design, and develop scalable backend services and APIs that support complex digital experiences. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product, frontend, data, and UX—to design solutions that enhance the customer journey. + Lead technical initiatives, including solution architecture, performance tuning, and system scalability improvements. + Optimize application performance while ensuring high code quality. + Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing within the team. + Advocate for best practices in service architecture, security, and testing. + Build and maintain secure, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems. + Develop reusable frameworks and components for backend service integrations. + Maintain code quality through automated testing, continuous integration, and thorough code reviews. + Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across complex system components. + Build scalable, reliable systems capable of handling large volumes of traffic and data. + Write clean, efficient, maintainable code aligned with engineering best practices. + Debug and troubleshoot issues within distributed systems across multiple environments. + Contribute to performance optimization, security enhancements, and system resilience. + Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers. **What You’ll Bring** + 6–9 years of total experience, including 5+ years in backend engineering and platform development. + 5+ years of experience with Java technologies, distributed systems, and large-scale application design and development. + Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, REST, Kafka, and Cassandra. + Experience with containerization technologies and microservices architecture. + Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and monitoring tools. + Expertise in Java, multithreading, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to build robust, high‑performance, scalable applications. + Strong adherence to SDLC processes and Scrum/Agile methodologies. 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 (https://one.walmart.com/) . The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ‎ **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 3 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 5 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 1 year's 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. **Primary Location...** 2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR 72716-3724, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment. 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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.