Position Summary...
As a Staff Engineer at Walmart, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for solving complex engineering problems and driving technical strategy across multiple teams and products. You will combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to influence architecture, product direction, engineering standards, and execution across organizational boundaries.
You will work closely with Product, Business, Architecture, and Engineering teams to translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions. You will provide technical leadership from problem discovery and architecture through implementation, production deployment, and continuous improvement, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to prototype and build critical solutions.
You will also play a key role in advancing AI-native engineering, leveraging modern AI capabilities and developer tools to improve both customer experiences and engineering productivity
What you'll do...
About Team:
CustomerTechnology : Omni Services - Creating Frictionless End to End Omni channel Customer Journey – Store experience, Digital App, Data insights to power Smooth retail shopping and check out experience to make our customers smile and our developers proud!
The Omni Services at IDC owns several areas of the Store Services in Digital Retail like Wireless, BPO, SIM and ACC . We are responsible for architecture, design and delivery of programs within the areas we own. We work on Backend Technologies hosted on premises , Cloud Hosted and Applications across Web, Android and IOS for Walmart US markets. This eco system uses Core java Technologies, Azure Cloud Technology
What you'll do:
Embed directly with Walmart business teams and customers to understand their workflows, uncover high-value problems, and turn ambiguity into clear technical plans.
Own complex initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and rapid prototyping through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Stay hands-on across design, development, testing, deployment, and production support, delivering reliable solutions at Walmart scale.
Build and productionize AI-native solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, semantic search) with rigorous evaluation, security, governance, and observability.
Identify patterns across engagements and turn them into reusable architectures, components, and standards that let other teams move faster.
Serve as the voice of the customer to Product, Platform, and Engineering, shaping roadmaps based on what you learn in the field.
Lead technically without direct authority: drive architecture decisions, raise engineering quality, and mentor engineers across teams and geographies.
Connect every engagement to measurable customer and business outcomes, balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term sustainability
What you'll bring:
10+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable applications, platforms, or distributed systems.
Strong hands-on system design and architecture experience.
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and design patterns.
Extensive hands-on experience with modern backend, frontend, cloud, and distributed technologies.
Strong experience designing and building RESTful services, microservices, APIs, messaging systems, and data platforms.
Experience with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD technologies.
Experience with observability, reliability, performance, security, and production operations.
Demonstrated experience conducting architecture, design, and code reviews.
Strong hands-on ability to prototype and validate technical solutions.
Experience applying AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, or AI-assisted development is highly valuable.
Ability to learn and adopt emerging technologies quickly.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to influence and build…