PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 7
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
This is the Walmart Global Tech team that ensures customers receive their orders as fast as they want, where they want, building reusable SaaS products and services that manage the catalog and power end-to-end inventory management ranging from replenishment and fulfilment to transportation. The team is responsible for the design, development, and operations of the applications used in the day-to-day working of Walmart's Supply Chain, developing micro-services for supply chain operations that are leveraged through mobile and web applications by warehouse associates. This role covers coding, unit testing, and building high performance and scalable applications that meet the needs of millions of Walmart-International customers, along with design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of one or more systems or products while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
What you will do
- Through this role you have an opportunity to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of the customer and the company.
- You will be responsible for design, architecture, and end-to-end delivery of one or more systems/products while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- You will have to estimate effort, identify risks, help with prioritization and devising/meeting project schedules.
- You will raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
- You will build and maintain systems in a way that ensures compliance with certification, regulatory standards, and a technology-based information security program.
- You will show your skills in analyzing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance
- You will be Mentoring /coaching other engineers in the team to facilitate their development.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- BE/BTech/ME/MTech//PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 14+ years of strong design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed systems and products
- Expertise in Data analysis and engineering.
- Extensive experience in architecting and developing real-time multithreaded Java applications that are fault-tolerant, scalable and can handle high volumes
- Excellent computer systems fundamentals, DS/Algorithms and problem solving skills.
- Expert in OO design and design patterns.
- Basic knowledge (coding experience) in Java, Spring Framework, Oracle, NoSQL databases, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Good exposure to any of the public cloud infrastructure such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS.
- Experience in developing and designing applications and web services in a Service Oriented Architecture, including the use of RESTful services and API gateways.
- Mentor junior developers and continuously improve software engineering practices.
- 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.
- Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
- A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize systems and tools.
- Excellent organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
Preferred qualifications
- Nice to have full stack experience with Java, React, Nodejs.
Benefits and support
- incentive awards for your performance
- maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- health benefits
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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