Senior Backend Developer Jobs in Arkansas
Senior Backend Developer jobs in Arkansas are open across Bentonville and other Arkansas metros, with employers like Walmart hiring at every experience level. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, leads platform-level execution of advanced software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and roadmap milestones. This role oversees scalable infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks while driving full lifecycle development, operational excellence, and cloud cost optimization. Collaborating across teams, the position champions architectural integrity, technical quality, and continuous improvement. The leader mentors engineers, manages complex initiatives, and fosters effective stakeholder engagement to deliver innovative, reliable solutions that support business goals and enhance customer and associate experiences.
About the team
The OMS engineering team develops and maintains a vital platform managing the complete purchase order lifecycle, connecting merchandising, supply chain, and supplier systems. This team ensures accurate, timely, and automated order processing at scale by focusing on platform reliability, scalability, and modernization. Their work enhances inventory availability, reduces operational costs, and improves supplier interactions, supporting seamless product flow and better customer outcomes. The team applies strong project and stakeholder management, technology roadmaps, and DevOps architecture to deliver high-quality solutions that drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across the platform.
What you'll do:
- Lead platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with domain priorities and roadmap milestones.
- Oversee shared infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks to support scalable, secure development and seamless system integration.
- Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, promoting DevOps practices and continuous improvement.
- Manage cloud cost optimization and enhance automation, telemetry, and tooling to reduce operational friction.
- Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and uphold technical quality and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define priorities, track progress, and ensure timely delivery of complex initiatives.
- Foster innovation by identifying opportunities to improve processes, tools, and products.
What you'll bring:
- Proven leadership in platform engineering, overseeing software and AI/ML system development aligned with strategic roadmaps.
- Expertise in managing full software development lifecycle, including DevOps architecture, CI/CD, and cloud financial management.
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills to deliver complex technical initiatives on time and within scope.
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence through code reviews, testing, and adherence to security standards.
- Ability to drive innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across multiple teams and platforms.
- Sound technical judgment with adaptability to evolving technologies and system contexts.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location
1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, leads platform-level execution of advanced software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and roadmap milestones. This role oversees scalable infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks while driving full lifecycle development, operational excellence, and cloud cost optimization. Collaborating across teams, the position champions architectural integrity, technical quality, and continuous improvement. The leader mentors engineers, manages complex initiatives, and fosters effective stakeholder engagement to deliver innovative, reliable solutions that support business goals and enhance customer and associate experiences.
About the team
The OMS engineering team develops and maintains a vital platform managing the complete purchase order lifecycle, connecting merchandising, supply chain, and supplier systems. This team ensures accurate, timely, and automated order processing at scale by focusing on platform reliability, scalability, and modernization. Their work enhances inventory availability, reduces operational costs, and improves supplier interactions, supporting seamless product flow and better customer outcomes. The team applies strong project and stakeholder management, technology roadmaps, and DevOps architecture to deliver high-quality solutions that drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across the platform.
What you'll do:
- Lead platform-level execution of software and AI/ML systems, ensuring alignment with domain priorities and roadmap milestones.
- Oversee shared infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks to support scalable, secure development and seamless system integration.
- Drive full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, promoting DevOps practices and continuous improvement.
- Manage cloud cost optimization and enhance automation, telemetry, and tooling to reduce operational friction.
- Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and uphold technical quality and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define priorities, track progress, and ensure timely delivery of complex initiatives.
- Foster innovation by identifying opportunities to improve processes, tools, and products.
What you'll bring:
- Proven leadership in platform engineering, overseeing software and AI/ML system development aligned with strategic roadmaps.
- Expertise in managing full software development lifecycle, including DevOps architecture, CI/CD, and cloud financial management.
- Strong project and stakeholder management skills to deliver complex technical initiatives on time and within scope.
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence through code reviews, testing, and adherence to security standards.
- Ability to drive innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across multiple teams and platforms.
- Sound technical judgment with adaptability to evolving technologies and system contexts.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location
1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
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Who's Hiring
- Walmart33
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail33
- Consumer Goods3
- E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces3
What Arkansas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior backend developer jobs across Arkansas.
- 5 or more years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Python, or Node.js
- Experience designing and building distributed systems or microservices
- Hands-on work with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL database design and optimization
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design discussions and code reviews
Senior Backend Developer Jobs in Arkansas: Frequently Asked Questions
How many senior backend developer jobs are there in Arkansas?
There are 33+ senior backend developer openings in Arkansas on Migrate Mate as of June 2026, with the most roles in Bentonville. New positions post regularly as employers across Arkansas hire.
How much do senior backend developers make in Arkansas?
Senior backend developers in Arkansas earn a median of about $104,490 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $60,570 for the lowest 10% to over $162,380 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which Arkansas cities have the most senior backend developer jobs?
Bentonville have the most senior backend developer openings in Arkansas right now, with additional roles spread across smaller metros statewide.
Which companies hire senior backend developers in Arkansas?
Employers hiring senior backend developers in Arkansas include Walmart, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote senior backend developer jobs in Arkansas?
Yes. About 3% of senior backend developer openings tied to Arkansas are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in Arkansas metros.
How do I apply for senior backend developer jobs in Arkansas?
You can apply to senior backend developer jobs in Arkansas directly on Migrate Mate. Search the listings above, find roles that match your experience and preferred Arkansas location, then apply to each one that fits.
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