SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Inventory & Merch Tech is the engineering backbone of Walmart's Inventory & Merchandising organization, spanning pricing, cost management, supplier, item, and inventory platforms that support 10,000+ stores and Walmart's global supply chain. Our team delivers a single, unified experience for Walmart’s supplier community across all channels, covering Ti er 1 capa bilities end to end. Our goal is to dramatically scale assortment while improving supplier efficiency. We o perate with high autonomy, a strong engineering culture, and a bias toward clean, principle-based design over quick patches.

Define and own the technical roadmap and end-to-end delivery for merchant- and associate-facing pricing, assortment, and promotion applications.

Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects, translating requirements into technical solutions and directing execution across teams.

Stay hands-on: develop design artifacts such as proof of concepts and prototypes, write and review code and oversee software design and unit test coverage.

Build and maintain cloud-native, resilient services using Java/Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, and REST/ GraphQL APIs across Azure, GCP, and internal cloud platforms , with a React front end.

Hire, develop, and retain a strong team of software engineers, owning performance management, career growth, and promotions.

Own cloud cost discipline for your team's services, balancing performance and reliability against spend.

Hold the team to a high engineering bar: strong CI/CD, automated testing, and security standards; automate where it pays off rather than by default.

Partner with product, program, and project managers on plans, dependency tracking, and hand-offs; communicate status, risks, and issues clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.