(Ind) Senior, Software Engineer

Position Summary…

Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

What you’ll do…

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer 

Location: Bangalore 

Job Summary 

Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates. At People.AI, we help, support and empower the Walmart’s HR function with AI and GenAI solutions to improve productivity, harnessing the opportunities for growth, focusing on well-being and cultivating cultures of belonging for all Walmart’s associates. People.AI is a horizontal data science team supporting People Tech and Services across a multitude of use-cases and business domains.  

People.AI strategy aims to empower the people business and associates by converting Walmart’s people data, business processes, knowledge and HR subject matter expertise into different productivity experiences like knowledge search and Q&A, data analytics and insights, actions and recommendations etc. People.AI is building a GenAI powered platform named My Assistant to enable all Walmart associates with multitude of integrated services and experiences to help increase productivity and boost associate satisfaction. 

The People.AI team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning Engineer). In this individual contributor role, you need to possess outstanding python development experience and a deep passion for AI/ML driven product development. This role involves leading the development of innovative ML systems on an enterprise scale, implementing cutting-edge Generative AI technologies, and collaborating with a diverse, yet highly synergized, team. Also, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems with responsibilities including creation and maintenance of technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements, and architecting complex software systems to ensure performance, security, and scalability needs are met. Additionally, the role involves collaborating closely with data scientists, machine learning engineers, front end developers and other cross-functional teams, establishing and enforcing coding standards through thorough code reviews 

About Team: 

The EBS People Technology organization supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience. 

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools. 

What you’ll do: 

This is a vital role with significant growth prospects. You will have work to do from day one and you will be counted on to create opportunities that align with the overall organization goals. Some of this role key responsibilities are but not limited to:  

• Work in an Agile environment as part of a scrum team   

• Design end-to-end system architecture for data-intensive applications   

• Develop and deploy production-grade real-time/batch machine learning services   

• Collaborate with applied researchers and data scientists to iteratively improve our ML models and refine MLOps practice   

• Support production operations by participating in on-call rotations   

What you’ll bring: 

• You have 6+ years’ experience in design, development and maintenance of highly scalable, secure and user-centric products and platforms 

• You have a bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related area 

• You are excited about building distributed machine learning systems at scale in production   

• You are thorough and detail oriented   

• You believe in the importance of establishing work standards and leveraging automations   

• You have a history of collaboration, openness, honesty, timely decision making, and clear communication in both verbal and written forms   

• You embrace lifelong learning – always learning new technologies and techniques. You are also engaged in the open-source communities to both find answers and help others   

Must-have experiences:  

• Exceptional at writing high-performing production-quality code in Python  

• Hands-on experience designing and building end-to-end Machine Learning applications  

• Familiar with version control using Git in collaboration settings  

• Good understanding of common families of models, feature engineering, feature selection and other practical machine learning issues, such as data drift  

• Comfortable working with Linux and containers  

Supplemental skills:  

• Experience developing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines  

• Experience with Kubernetes  

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines in online advertising, recommender system, e-commerce, or relevant areas 

About Global Tech 

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption. 

Ways of Working 

Flexible, hybrid work 

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives. 

Benefits    

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include many best-in-class benefits like maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and more. 

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 to 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. 

Minimum Qualifications 

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.  

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Preferred Qualifications 

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Primary Location… 

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India 

Minimum Qualifications…

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 3years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
Option 2: 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications…

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC, Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 1 year’s experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects

Information Technology – CISCO Certification – Certification

Primary Location…

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India