Software Engineer III

Position: Software Engineer III 

Job Location: 2101 SE Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712 

Duties: Assists in providing guidance to small groups of two to three engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timeline. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short and long term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. 

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. Position does not require specific years of experience but requires listed skills. 

Skills required: Must have experience with: designing and developing mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms; working on hybrid mobile application development using Ionic frameworks, Angular, and React-Native; using Native APIs for tight integrations with platforms such as Android and iOS; working with Native mobile application development using iOS Swift, Objective C and Java languages; working on front-end technologies using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Flexbox, Material UI, React-native, Redux, React-Router, Angular, and Ionic; working on debugging application issues and defects with React Native debugger; eliminating duplicate codes and writing components in reusable ways; working with object-oriented concepts and data structures such as HashMap’s and Trees; integrating RESTful APIs using Ajax for applications and Alamofire for Native iOS applications; working with third-party dependency tools such as babel, webpack, NPM, and yarn; working with Agile tools such as JIRA and code management tools such as GitHub; Native build tools such as X code, Gradle (Android Studio), Cocoapods, developer accounts and certificates; designing and implementing scalable, RESTful Microservices based-web application back-end; writing back-end in Java using Spring Boot for simplicity and scalability; working on Log4j, Splunk and Kibana for logging errors, messages and performance logs and implementing distributed caching across applications using Spring Security; working on web, mobile automation, unit, and accessibility testing using Selenium, Appium, Jest, Chai, Mocha, Cucumber, and Accessibility Inspector; back-end workflow testing using JUnit, Mockito and Ready API for automation API testing; and defining the linting rules and applying Git prehooks for code quality gateway. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills. 

Rate of pay:  $90,000 - $180,000/year 

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.