PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

Job Description

• Through this role you would be responsible for the architecture, design, and development of crucial components of large-scale, highly performant scalable systems.

• You will be focusing on Real-Time Data Platfom, web crawling, streaming analytics, distributed machine learning infrastructure and other tasks as part of Search Big Data team.

• You will be delivering technology solutions those that will enable the business to make critical decisions.

• You will be independently driving the engagement with product management and other engineering teams within Walmart.

• You will also have to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a team of highly talented and motivated engineers to deliver these solutions with the highest quality.

• You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance

• You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.

• Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, storage technologies, distributed computing, operating systems, etc.
• Minimum 13+ years of object-oriented programming experience in Java.
• 12+ years of experience in building of large scale systems using Java, Spring Framework, JPA, NoSQL, RDBMS, Message Queues, Redis etc.
• 12+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Exposure to open source Search Platform built on Apache Lucene - SOLR or Elastic Search would be an added advantage.
• Respect for the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing, diverse team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace and equitable experiences where associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best, diverse team members.
  
  Respect for the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments.
  
  Respect for the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
  
  Acts with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
  
  Acts with Integrity: Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
  
  Acts with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
  
  Service to the Customer/Member: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
  
  Service to the Customer/Member: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team s strategy.
  
  Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
  
  Strive for Excellence: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.

Preferred Qualifications...