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: 

Marketplace Engineering (Catalog/Item) team is at the forefront of building core platforms and services to enable Walmart to deliver vast selection at competitive prices and with best in class post-order experience by enabling third-party sellers to list, sell and manage their products to our customers on walmart.com. We do this by managing the entire seller lifecycle, monitoring customer experience, and delivering high-value insights to our sellers to help them plan their assortment, price, inventory. The team also actively collaborates with partner platform teams to ensure we continue to deliver the best experience to our sellers and our customers. This role will be focused on the Marketplace and Item setup/Maintenance related aspects (experience, platforms and Reporting tools)

What you'll do:

• Lead the back end development team in the design, development, and maintenance of our applications.

• Work with the product team to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

• Architect and implement back end solutions that meet the needs of the business.

• Mentor and coach junior developers on back end technologies.

• Set and enforce coding standards and best practices.

• Participate in code reviews and bug fixing.

• Stay up-to-date on the latest back end technologies.

• Develop and maintain backend web services and APIs using a variety of programming languages and frameworks

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting multi-billion-dollar business.

• Proactively monitor, identify, and escalate issues or root causes of systemic issues

• Be the consummate team player with a demonstrable ability to learn quickly. amazing ability to get stuff done.

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

• Work with data science team to implement data analytics pipelines

• Enable data scientists, business and product partners to fully leverage our platform

• Lead the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design

What you'll bring:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 14+ years experience.

• Experience with a variety of programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Python, Node.js, spring Boot

• Experience in bootstrap production and non-prod environments in public/private clouds

• Experience working on at least on big data technology like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra.

• Experience in secure, scalable and highly available online services

• Solid knowledge of Linux systems with the ability to troubleshoot issues in complex, distributed, multi-tier architectures. Excellent debugging and problem solving capability.

• Experience working with J2EE and Scala or Python

• Experience developing with web/app containers such as Apache/Tomcat

• Follows the industry trends in the online world

• Good knowledge of High performance Stream processing, Large Scale Messaging Systems

• Experience on Cloud Architecture, Microservices Architecture and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with event-based system processing such as Kafka

• Exposure to design and building GraphQL schema will be added advantage

• Experience in deploying solutions on any of these cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)

• Working knowledge of SQL /No-SQL and database technologies (MySQL, Mango DB)

• Work exposure on Agile methodologies and DevOps would be added advantage

• Well versed with Testing frameworks like JUnit, Mocha, TestNG & Selenium

• CI/CD Automation experience with tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins & Azure DevOps

• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical & innovative solutions

• 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

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...

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