Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Team:
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 Tier 1 capabilities end to end. Our goal is to dramatically scale assortment while improving supplier efficiency. We operate with high autonomy, a solid engineering culture, and a bias toward clean, principle-based design over quick patches.
What you'll do:
Write efficient and quality code that can work @ Walmart scale
Build and maintain RESTful and event-driven services using Java/Spring Boot (or equivalent), integrated with SQL and NoSQL data stores and messaging systems such as Kafka.
Develop responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications.
Adopt Walmart’s quality standards and develop and recommend process standards and best practices across the retail industry




Contribute to engineering excellence backlog.
Improve reliability of overall production system by proactively identifying patterns of failure.
Participate in technical design and architecture discussions; contribute to and uphold engineering standards, coding guidelines, and design-review practices.
Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, integration, contract, e2e) and treat quality and observability as first-class parts of the job, not an afterthought.
Take end-to-end ownership of stories — including design, performance, failure handling, and serviceability — through to production.
Deploy and operate services on cloud infrastructure (Azure/GCP) using CI/CD pipelines, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and technical debt; propose and drive pragmatic fixes.
Partner closely with product managers, architects and business stake

📌 Software Engineer III (Chennai)
🏢 Walmart
📍 Chennai