(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

The platforms you build will be used for creating the Global Catalog for Walmart, across multiple countries with each of them being a multi-billion dollar business for Walmart. You will be challenged with unparalleled complex business problems that span across multiple countries and a large number of users, and data. This team enables our stores and eCommerce operations across the world. The platforms that we build are used in most of the markets where Walmart has its presence (US and outside the US). The Catalog group of Walmart focuses on platforms responsible for setting up items and offers in Walmart Catalog and serving them to the site services at very high scales, with accuracy and low latency.

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.

• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities, and deliver awesome products.

• Work closely with Distinguished Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost, and Delivery).

• Within the established architectural guidelines.

• Participate in hiring and building teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams.

• You will work with engineering teams to create high-level and low-level designs and drive design.

• You will come up with quality, best practices, and other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them with overall technical and design aspects.

• You will help implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross cross-functional engineering teams as cloud, platform, analytics, etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.

Requirements:

• B. Tech. / B. E. / M. Tech. / M. S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline.

• 15+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly for multi-tenant, SaaS products.

• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practices by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.

• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.

• Having proficiency in Java/J2EE, Microservices, and Cloud Native Architecture.

• Hands-on experience in Microservices, and RESTful web services development in Java SpringBoot, Dropwizard, or equivalent framework). • Good knowledge of messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ.

• In-depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture, and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc. ) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc. ).

• Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms.

• Self-starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.

• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for the development and design of at 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.

• Proficient in new and emerging technologies.

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

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

• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

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