[Moocar]

WalmartLabs - Clojure Developer. San Francisco (full time) or US remote.

You can work on Clojure at quite a few companies, but rarely can you impact millions of people at such a personal level. Walmart's mobile apps are highly rated and the services we write to support them are the base of that success. We started from a small company acquisition with a single product. Today, we power a platform and a suite of products running on mobile devices and systems in retail stores.

Our team has a unique environment. We're still a small, flat team of engineers. We work with our own tools and make our own build-or-borrow decisions. Our culture is a healthy mix of sharing and pushing each other to be better at our craft. For example, we pair program when it best suits the task. We use pull requests & code reviews liberally. We make refactoring time. We deploy often, with a single line of code run from a REPL. Engineers on our team are challenged to work through our full software stack and be part of our product and project management. We believe that people are more engaged, fulfilled and happy when they feel responsible for actually shipping their work. What we're all about

The environment at WalmartLabs balances moving fast and breaking shit, with the knowledge that we could break shit for 140 million people every week. It's a tough balance but we've found the payoff to be worth the challenge and responsibility.

Some aspects of our work that are important to us:

  - high performance distributed systems
  - robust & well-factored codebases
  - simple & fast deployments
  - automating the hell out of operations
  - thorough system test coverage
  - managing our own development process and work backlog
  - pair programming when it makes sense (locally and remotely)
  - contibuting back to the clojure & open source community
  - having an engaging team culture and environment

What we do:

  - write all our production systems & tools in Clojure
  - create and orchestrate massive distributed systems
  - spin up RESTful web services for consuming & ingesting large volumes of data

We are just a part of:

  - Walmart is the world's largest retailer and one of the world's top online 
    retailers. The scale of challenges and potential impact is enormous.
  - Walmart is actually a group of retail businesses spread all over the world
    including Sam's Club, Asda (UK), Massmart, Walmart International
  - WalmartLabs is a software development shop responsible for tools, platforms 
    and applications for new products in all Walmart businesses. These 
    include platform tools, data analytics & machine learning, search engines, 
    mobile applications and physical retail tools.
  - WalmartLabs Mobile builds mobile applications and backend services for all 
    Walmart businesses.

Does this sound like something you're into? Shoot me an email at [e-mail]

Edit: formatting

[oliver_martell]

Is this position open to remote candidates outside the US?

[Moocar]

Why the downvote?

[eli]

Who knows, voting is a pretty weird concept on a job thread. I suspect most serious job seekers either read the whole page or Ctrl+F for keywords.

[smtddr]

Not me, but sometimes it's an accident that happens when browsing on a mobile device. Those up&down arrows are too close together IMHO.

[holtbp]

My guess is someone is just hating on Walmart

[swordswinger12]

Which is especially silly in this case because there is some pretty cool research that comes out of Walmart Labs. Most of what's relevant to me is the applied crypto/searchable encryption stuff.

[sparr0]

There's an excellent response to be made regarding the "silliness" of weighing cool research vs the ethics of the body doing the research, but making it explicitly would invoke Godwin's Law.

[zerr]

I didn't downvote, but why "US" in "US remote"?

I'm always interested when I seen some country restrictions for remote jobs. In fact, a vast majority of these jobs are from US companies. So what's so special about US? Is dealing with paperwork for non-US candidates that hard for you?

[jtheory]

A few possibilities:

- it's simpler for tax/legal purposes for them to hire people who are US residents and legal to work in the US.

- we're in the UK, and hire non-UK-based remote, but we've had a hard time if the timezone is more than a few hours off of London time. In the US, this pretty much restricts you to the Americas (which include a lot more than the US, of course, but this does make a decent chunk of non-US candidates incompatible for them).

[hemantv]

I have a friend whose offer was withdrawn without prior notice. Just a shitty company to work for.