PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary... 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.

What youll do...

About The Team

The Customer Accounts & Membership team drives Walmart Ecommerce and has two main objectives:

• Enable Unified Access: Provide users with a seamless, secure, and unified access to Walmart across all touchpoints.
• Develop Membership Services: Create an outstanding membership/subscription service, aiming to become the preferred choice for customers.

The Accounts team at IDC Bangalore addresses customer, associate, and business needs. This team is part of Walmart International which operates across markets outside US.

What will you Do?

Principal Software Engineer role is a hands-on role that support architectural designs and advisory for retail domain areas owned by teams in IDC. This is a highly technical role where the right candidate can go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs.

Direct support and engagement with engineering teams will improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. Contributions towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards will help elevate the entire engineering org and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems. Direct team engagement across many domains will increase networking which further elevates the overall org. This role has a huge impact to the business as the new designed platform will power the growth of the markets.

What You ll Do:

• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.

• Collaborating with project team and cross functional teams. Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan.

• Models compliance with company policies, procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans.

• Creates training documentation. Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions.

• Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components.

• Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications.

• Design and optimize databases using SQL and NoSQL technologies for data storage and retrieval.

• Implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and ensure seamless integration with other systems.

• Work with cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure to build scalable and secure applications.

• Collaborate with the team to perform code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure high-quality code delivery.

• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.

What you ll Bring ...

• At least 12+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems.

• A good understanding of Java and Microservices.

• Hands on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Cloud (Azure/GCP), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS ( MySQL, Oracle etc. ) Typescript/JavaScript, React, Redux, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

• Should be hands on writing/reviewing design & code.

• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.

• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.

• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines are desirable.

• Experience in internalization is a plus.

• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.

• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.

• Mentoring/coaching Senior staff engineers and other Engineers.

• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.

• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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.

Primary Location... Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India