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.

• You will work with the multiple teams and guide them on technical aspects, set quality standards and participate in design discussion and drive technical decisions
• Architecture & Design Reviews across teams
• Code Reviews across teams
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.
• 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.
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• You will use your engineering experience and technical skill to develop highly scalable and robust solutions. You will work with Engineering Lead/architect.
• 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.
• You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to open source technologies to Make impact on a global scale
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.

• 15+ years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development
• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably within the ecommerce industry.
• Extensive knowledge of mobile application development (iOS, Android), web development, orchestration layer, and backend systems, CMS Tools
• Hosted & Participated Architecture Review & Design/Code Review events.
• Hands on System Designing experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Extensive hands-on experience building services using these technologies (Java, Springboot, Microservices ,NodeJs)
• Hands-on experience in web technologies like React JS/Angular Js, Java script, Type script, CSS
• In depth knowledge and Hands-on working experience on Restful web services
• In depth knowledge and working experience on SOAP web services
• Good Knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Knowledge on unit testing frameworks (Junit, Jest , Spock etc) and code quality control platforms like Sonar
• Knowledge on cloud platforms any cloud platforms like IAAS/PAAS
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Experience in implementing Distributed Cache(Redis/Hazlecast)
• Well-Versed with Logging and Metrics tools and technologies (ELK/Splunk/Grafana)
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud based project.
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

Minimum Qualifications... Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 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 systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years experience in software engineering or related area.