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 strong engineering culture, and a bias toward clean, principle-based design over quick patches.
What you'll do:
Guide the team in architectural decisions and best practices for building scalable, full-stack applications.
Own technical roadmaps for the team, driving the transition to modern microservices architectures and next-gen technologies.
Lead system design, development, and code reviews across teams, setting technical direction at the platform level.
Stay hands-on, writing clean, effective, and maintainable code across the stack.




Drive system modernization and legacy migrations without disrupting the customer experience.
Partner with architects and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that meet QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within established architectural guidelines.
Engage with Product Management, Business, and senior leadership to shape priorities and the future product roadmap.
Partner with engineering teams across geographies to share expertise and contribute to the broader technical community.
Participate in hiring and build high-performing, agile engineering teams.
Mentor and grow engineers, raising the quality and technical bar across the team.
Troubleshoot and resolve critical, platform-level production issues through root-cause analysis, driving durable fixes.
Support on-call activities and ensure cloud costs stay within threshold.
Continuously measure and improve system performance, reliability, and sca

📌 STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Chennai)
🏢 Walmart
📍 Chennai