(IND) 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 you'll do...

About Team: 
Enterprise Business Services is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, Associate Digital Experience. Our team is responsible for design and development of solution that knows our consumer’s needs better than ever by predicting what they want based on unconstrained demand, and efficiently unlock strategic growth, economic profit, and wallet share by orchestrating intelligent, connected planning and decisioning across all functions. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.This role will play crucial role in overseeing the planning, execution and delivery of complex projects within team
 

What you'll do:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to

• 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.

What you'll bring:

• 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

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 expert's 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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

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: Bachelor's 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