Lead Java Developer

Your main goals are to:

- Power Walmart inventory system, handling billions of events daily.

- Maximize on-site availability while minimizing reject rates due to lack of inventory.

- Give more insight to our marketing and operations teams via more historical data and improved analytics.

- Unify inventory management responsibilities currently spread across multiple systems and teams.

- Debug production issues with other teams across services and multiple levels of the stack.

Requirements:

- Top-notch programming skills, with an interest in functional programming languages.

- Solid Coding skills in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring Boot experience

- Solid understanding of designing, developing and supporting large scale, cloud based distributed systems.

- Experience with REST based API Development

- SOA Architecture experience is needed to develop scalable APIs

- Exposure to event based and asynchronous processing.

- Strong operational excellence and testing skills.

- Someone who values automation. We don’t like solving the same problem manually over and over.

- Experience working with distributed databases (Cosmos/Cassandra/etc.)

Nice to Have:

- Fluent in a few programming languages, functional, dynamic and static.

- Solid understanding of how to use data structures to solve problems optimally.

- Good understanding of event-driven systems.

- Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platform.

- Understands DevOps: how to support large scale distributed systems, how to prioritize and escalate issues.