Back End Software Engineers

Position Summary

Position Summary...

As part of the Emerging Tech team, you’ll build the backend foundation for Project Sparky, an AI powered assistant that helps customers manage everyday shopping through intelligent, context aware experiences. In this role, you’ll design and scale distributed backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines that integrate with generative and agentic AI, partnering closely with mobile, web, and AI/ML teams to power reliable, low latency conversational experiences for millions of customers.

* Immigration Sponsorship is not available in this role

Our Emerging Tech team drives Walmart’s AI transformation by building intelligent systems that influence how millions shop every day across our global retail ecosystem. We develop state-of-the-art generative and conversational AI that powers more proactive, connected, and personalized experiences. At this scale, every innovation you create not only reaches millions of customers worldwide but also comes to life in the very communities where you live, work, and shop.

• Design and build distributed backend systems that power customer facing products at Walmart scale.

• Own service architecture, data flows, and API design to support fast, reliable experiences.

• Balance scalability, reliability, latency, and cost as you operate systems in production.

• Evolve services using modern cloud, container, observability, and CI/CD practices.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive improvements through clear postmortems.

• Mentor engineers and help shape longterm architectural direction across services.

• Partner with product and platform teams to build solutions that support longterm business goals.

Principal Engineers

• 10–15+ years of backend engineering experience. (Java)

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, data, and cloud infrastructure.

• Build highly available, highly scalable services and the tooling to support them.

• Strong mentorship and architectural leadership across product lines.

Staff Engineers

• 7–10+ years of backend engineering experience. (Java)

• Ownership of major frontend surfaces or platform level capabilities.

• Strong instincts for system design and partnership with backend and cross functional teams.

• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.

If you’re excited about shaping the future of backend systems at Walmart, we encourage you to apply. We’ll review your background and match you to the engineering level that aligns best with your skills, experience, and career goals.

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 experts and service professionals within the worlds 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.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and its fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs:
Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

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…