About the team:
Walmart's AdTech Offsite Social Integrations team is seeking a dynamic and innovative, Staff Software Engineer to continue expanding our offsite and social presence.
What you'll do :
- Lead engineering teams to plan, design, and implement offsite social AdTech integrations.
- Oversee and deliver hands-on engineering initiatives cutting across multiple inhouse and 3rd party solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, UX, and business teams to define project requirements, scope, and timelines.
- Prioritize automation and scale without trading off performance and quality.
- Focus on engineering excellence while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.
- Provide technical guidance, support, and coaching to team members, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Investigate and build proof-of-concept prototypes utilizing new technologies and drive their adoption within the mainstream product.
- Build, leverage, and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
- Set high bar for operational excellence and system observability.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in software engineering and technical lead roles.
- Proven ability to manage a team 2-3 delivering multiple projects concurrently.
- Prefer prior experience in AdTech space.
- 8+ years of strong programming skills in Scala/Java/Python for building services, and SQL/No-SQL.
- 5+ years experience with large scale software integrations, testing, performance, and quality engineering techniques and strategies.
- 4+ years experience in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.
- Experience and/or interest in building tooling that makes your engineering colleagues successful
- Strong communication skills are necessary to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- A strategic mindset to align technical initiatives with business goals is essential.