PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart · Posted Oct 27
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
Walmart Global Tech's Corporate Tech and Services teams build technology solutions for retail operations, finance, sourcing and associate-facing processes. This Principal Software Engineer role works on scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices and data-intensive applications, guiding architecture and system design. The role partners with product, architects and engineering teams across geographies and participates in hiring and roadmap planning.
What you will do
- Guide the team in architectural decisions and best practices for building scalable applications.
- Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
- Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
- Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
- Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
- Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 10 years of experience in software design, development and automated deployments.
- Have prior experience in delivering highly scalable large scale data processing Java applications. Should be proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Spark.
- Strong in high and low level system design. Should be experienced in designing data intensive applications in open stack.
- A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
- Should be experienced in CICD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.
- Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC
- Hands on experience building Java-based backend systems and experience of working in cloud based solutions is a must.
- Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Possesses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.
- Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.
- Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.
- Provide multiple alternatives for development frameworks, libraries, and tools.
- Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB.
- Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.
- Experience in event based systems like Kafka.
- Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.
- Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage.
- An understanding of Mainframe databases will be an added advantage.
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information s...
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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