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 Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at

Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.

Team and Position Summary:

U.S. Technology: This business closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores and merchants with technology innovation. rom grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate — whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization. 

Our team is focused on leveraging latest research in generative AI, machine learning (ML), statistics, deep learning, computer vision and optimization to reshape how our customers interacts with our search and making it frictionless for them to get what they want. We help bring a seamless experience irrespective of how and where customers engage with us - while shopping online and picking groceries at stores. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores, and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global consumer base and powers assisted AI for our associates.

What You Will Do

· Understand business problems and suggest technology solutions.

· Architect, design, build and deploy technical solution to business and non functional problems at scale.

· Build and optimize distributed data processing jobs and pipelines.. 

· Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.

· Mentor/coach other engineers in the group to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.

· Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole.

What you'll bring:

• B.E./B. Tech/M Tech/MS in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of high scale applications development in product based companies or R&D divisions.

• 8+ years of experience building microservices using JAVA

• Strong background in computer science: algorithms and data structures. 

• Strong coding skills with Java. 

• Proven experience in writing extensible and testable software. 

• Proficient with design patterns, OOP, and/or Functional programming. 

• Proficient in designing robust, large scale backend system, considering for performance, scalability, security, maintainability and fault tolerance.

• Experience with Docker containerization, Kubernetes, GCP, and/or Azure. 

• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work independently and in a team. 

• Exposure to ML algorithms, tools, and ML systems is nice to have. 

• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills

Skills:

- Kafka, , RESTful Web-Services, Spring

- Microservices, SOA, Exposure to Cloud (AWS/Azure), CICD, Deployment Technologies, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL databases (Cassandra), Agile

About Walmart Global Tech

From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth, and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmart's scale enables us to have an. No other company has the reach of Walmart, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.

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...4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India