Freelance Application Software Engineer Jobs in Arkansas

Position:Software Engineer III

Job Location:811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties:Participatesin the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects tocome up withhigh level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information; performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues; researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Requirement And Scoping Analysis: Prepare requirement traceability matrix andmaintaintraceability between business requirements, functional requirements,designand test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements. Coding: To create/configure minimalistic code for entire component/application and ensure the componentsare meetingbusiness/technical requirements, non-functional requirements, low-maintainability, high-availabilityand high-scalability needs.Assistin the selection ofappropriate languages, developmentstandardsand tools for software coding/configuration. Take initiative to learn the fundamentals of different coding languages and frameworks that would be useful for future scope of work.Build scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks in CI/CD, Testing or any other process.Implement telemetry features asrequiredindependently. Ensure security policy requirements are properly applied to components/application during code development/configuration. Testing: To map the customerrequirements into testobjectives.Identifyand create test cases for the component/module. Execute test cases to test the code and detect errors and defects for the entirecomponent. Executedifferent typesof testing usingappropriate testingtools based on the testing needs. Defect Management and Troubleshooting: To track and analyze defects for the component/ module and carry out regression testing to fix defects in all instances of code changes. Analyze defects from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar defects. Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks for the application DevOps Orientation: To conduct complex maintenance procedures for applications independently. Monitor and evaluate the performance of the application by tracking and analyzingappropriate metrics; Perform maintenance and re-engineering activities. Analyze application logs, maintenance activity data, performance data and provide analysis; Evaluate change requests toidentifythose which are valid andfeasible.

Minimum education and experience required:Master's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in software engineering or related experience.

Skills required:Must have experience with: Developing and implementing production-grade machine learning pipelines and software solutions using Python and associated libraries (e.g.,Numpy, Pandas); Designing and deploying scalable microservices and ML models using containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes; Designing and implementing robust RESTful APIs (using frameworks likeFastAPI, Node.js, Express.js) to serve real-time model predictions; Processing and analyzing large-scale datasets using distributed computing systems like Apache Spark, Kafka,BigQuery; Applying advanced AI techniques, such as GenAI, NLP, or Computer Vision, to solve business problems like object detection or text classification; Developing user interfaces and dashboards using React.js, Typescript, Tableau for data visualization and application front-ends; Automating workflows (using Camunda/BPMN), complex data and ML workflows using orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, Cron to streamline business processes; Architecting and maintaining cloud-based solutions on platforms like GCP (Google Cloud Platform), AWS, or Azure; Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub, GitLab CI) to automate testing, quality assurance, and deployment; Writing and optimizing complex queries for MySQL PostgreSQL,BigQueryto support data ingestion and reporting.Employerwill accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Rate of pay:$90,000.00 - 180,000.00/year

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.