Walmart

Group Director, Software Engineering

Walmart

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Bangalore • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to build on external integrations that will expose Sparky, Walmart’s shopping AI assistant on to 3rd party platforms
  • Expand Next Gen Commerce’s reach to net new customers and incremental traffic and GMV.
  • Immersive content generation is a critical workstream for Sparky experiences leading to better conversion rates.
  • Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
  • Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
  • Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
  • Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Domain expertise in running large-scale systems with a strong emphasis on high availability; experience in eCommerce platforms is highly preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience managing large engineering organizations (100+ engineers), with a proven track record of leading senior engineering leaders and architects.
  • In-depth knowledge of large-scale distributed system technologies
  • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to influence across functional boundaries, driving consensus and aligning diverse teams toward common goals.
  • Demonstrated success in hiring, mentoring, and growing top-tier engineering talent—creating high-performance, high-impact teams.
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) with 20+ years of industry experience in engineering and technology leadership.
  • Prior experience in high-growth startups within eCommerce —ideally with a focus on scaling and innovating fast-paced platforms.
  • A strong bias toward innovation, with a passion for continuously evolving technology solutions and introducing new approaches to solve complex problems.
  • Customer and seller empathy—deep understanding of both customer and seller needs, with the ability to create technology solutions that enhance the user and seller experience alike.
Benefits
  • Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
  • Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

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Hard skills
large-scale systemshigh availabilityeCommerce platformsdistributed system technologiesproduct technology roadmapimmersive content generationplatform performanceoperational efficiencyengineering excellencetechnology solutions
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationrelationship buildinginfluenceconsensus drivingmentoringteam buildinginnovationcustomer empathyseller empathy
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science