(IND) DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the team:

Walmart's Marketplace is the backbone of a thriving ecosystem connecting millions of third-party sellers to hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. As Director of Engineering, Marketplace, you will lead the engineering teams responsible for building applications that enable the pre-purchase journey of a Seller. You will be building application to acquire, onboarding and enable sellers to engage on Walmart retail platform.

This is a high-impact leadership role sitting at the intersection of scale, commerce, and platform engineering. You will own the technical vision and execution for a portfolio of mission-critical, cross-cutting services that enables Seller to onboard through Seller Center UI and APIs. You will build and grow a world-class engineering organization capable of delivering innovation at Walmart speed.
 

What You'll Own

The Seller Acquisition & Onboarding team is essential to the Marketplace ecosystem, responsible for designing and scaling the global platform that supports the complete seller entry to Walmart marketplace journey. The team develops robust global acquisition funnels, automated onboarding workflows, and complex multi-platform integrations connecting cloud microservices, seller portals, and AI-driven analytics. You will own design, development and delivery of Seller On-boarding journey, addressing distributed systems challenges, optimize APIs, and establish architectural standards to enable international marketplace growth.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Strategy

• Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for Marketplace, aligning engineering investments with business growth and partner ecosystem goals.
• Own the end-to-end architecture for partner-facing APIs, seller tooling, marketplace integrations, and shared capabilities setting standards for reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Champion platformization. Establish and enforce consistent implementation patterns, shared service contracts, and reusable frameworks across all Marketplace verticals and business units.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Data Science, Operations to shape the tech strategy and translate business needs into engineering outcomes.
• Lead technical governance by establishing and enforceing engineering best practices, coding standards, observability frameworks, and security posture across all owned services.

People & Organization

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior engineers and tech leads fostering a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
• Drive recruiting and retention of senior engineering talent; grow the team through thoughtful hiring, strong onboarding, and compelling career development programs.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture where diverse perspectives are celebrated and every engineer can do the best work of their career.

Delivery & Operations

• Own delivery of complex, cross-functional engineering programs with clarity and accountability from discovery through production launch and beyond.
• Drive operational excellence: instill SLO/SLA discipline, incident response rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset across all services.
• Champion platform reliability and scalability, ensuring systems can support Walmart's growth trajectory including peak traffic events at scale.

Innovation & Technical Excellence

• Stay current with industry trends in software engineering, API ecosystems, distributed systems and bring relevant innovations back to the team.
• Sponsor internal technical communities (guilds, tech talks, open-source contributions) to elevate engineering craft across the broader organization.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices: CI/CD maturity, infrastructure-as-code, chaos engineering, AI-assisted development, and cloud-native architectures.
   

What you'll bring
 

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.

 

More than 15 years of experience in software engineering, 5+ years of leadership/management experience as a Manager of Managers and Principal/Staff Engineers with team size of 20+.
 

A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Agentic AI, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving.

Hands on experience working with Java, Python, Kafka, Big Data technologies. 

 

Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence; solid system design.

 

Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps · Proven experience in the design, development, and scaling of software platforms for large user bases, focusing on modularity and extensibility.

 

Platform-focused decision-making, balancing technical and business needs in fast-paced, complex environments to ensure performance and scalability. · Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams to align on platform goals.

 

Strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic business insight · Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
 

Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.
 

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Chennai office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
3 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India