FREE ACCESS
5,000–10,000 jobs/day
See all jobs on Scoutfield
Search thousands of fresh jobs every day.
Discover
- Fresh listings
- Fast filters
- No subscription required
Create a free account and start exploring right away.
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
Use this summary to align your resume positioning with the role.
Demonstrates extensive experience in designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems, with a strong focus on microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies. Proven ability to lead technical strategy, mentor teams, and influence architectural decisions while ensuring operational readiness and compliance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Microservices ArchitectureCloud-Native ServicesJava and Spring BootDevOps and CI/CD PracticesDistributed Systems Design
ATS Keywords
Tailor your resumeApplicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills
JavaSpring BootNode.jsKafkaNoSQL DatabasesCloud-Native TechnologiesPerformance EngineeringAutomated TestingInfrastructure AutomationSecure Software Development
Soft Skills
Excellent Communication SkillsDecision-Making SkillsInfluencing Without AuthorityMentoring and Leadership
Tools & Technologies
DockerKubernetesHelmGitMavenPrometheusGrafanaSplunk
Industry Keywords
Distributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitectureOperational ReadinessPCI ComplianceWCAG 2.2 AA
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMavenMicroservicesNode.jsNoSQLPrometheusSplunkSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as a hands-on technical authority and trusted advisor for Walmart+ engineering teams
- Lead discovery, technical strategy, and solution design for complex membership, engagement, benefits, personalization, and omnichannel initiatives
- Define and evolve scalable, resilient, and secure architectures for distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven platforms
- Translate business objectives and customer needs into technical strategies, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable engineering outcomes
- Drive architecture decisions balancing customer value, quality, cost, delivery timelines, maintainability, and platform evolution
- Design and review systems using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Kafka, NoSQL databases, and cloud-native technologies
- Lead design reviews, technical deep dives, code reviews, and architecture discussions
- Establish coding standards, design patterns, testing strategies, observability practices, and secure software development principles
- Contribute to critical code, prototypes, proof-of-concepts, technical spikes, and production problem resolution
- Ensure reliability through telemetry, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, performance engineering, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
- Drive automation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, continuous delivery, and developer productivity improvements
- Partner with Product Management, UX/UI, Quality Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Security, Data, and Architecture teams
- Create technical documentation, architecture decision records, diagrams, presentations, and implementation guidance
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads and foster learning and innovation
- Influence technical standards and reusable patterns across Walmart+ and Walmart Global Tech
- Research emerging technologies, including agentic AI use cases
- Participate in hiring, technical assessments, hackathons, demo days, and architecture forums
- Provide technical leadership during production incidents and drive durable corrective actions
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area; or 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
- Typically 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Demonstrated experience as a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, developing, and delivering software products and platforms with a large user base
- Advanced knowledge of software design, distributed systems, microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and performance engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot; experience with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript is highly desirable
- Deep experience with Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies
- Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling, consistency, availability, partitioning, replication, and scalability trade-offs
- Experience building cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices, Git, Maven or comparable build tools, automated testing, release management, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Excellent debugging, performance analysis, production support, and incident-management skills
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, distributed tracing, structured logging, and service-level indicators
- Ability to influence without direct authority and align multiple teams around a technical direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong decision-making skills and ability to balance competing priorities
- Experience working with global, geographically distributed teams and products
- Risk analysis and trade-off methodologies, coding standards, secure coding practices, software design principles, and development guidelines
- Knowledge of PCI and other applicable compliance requirements
- Knowledge of telemetry, observability, service health, capacity management, and operational readiness
- Knowledge of Secure Software Development Lifecycle frameworks, tools, and controls
- Awareness of WCAG 2.2 AA and accessible digital experiences
Benefits
Comp & perks- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Health benefits