Principal, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

Walmart's Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world‑class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

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Join Walmart as Principal, Software Engineer – Enterprise Business Services in our Global Technology team. Your work could help over 240 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life.

Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world‑class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

• Lead the design, development and launch of large high impact applications, services and systems.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including business, product and other software engineers to understand the business problem, review business requirements, draft technical requirements, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems.
• Be the role model and exemplary practitioner in the team, and establish mechanisms (design reviews, code reviews, OE reviews, root cause analysis, etc.) to ensure high quality, high availability, scalable and performant systems are delivered. Advocate the use of latest technology and system integration patterns, cutting across team boundaries.
• Develop subject matter expertise in payroll space and be the voice of the team in technical and business forums.

• At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
• Experience in multiple stack technologies Java, JavaScript, React or React Native, Android, Node.js, Spring etc.
• Demonstrated end‑to‑end ownership from inception to launch of multiple complex and ambiguous projects.
• Effective problem‑solving skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long‑term "big picture" and short‑term implications of design decisions.
• Proficiency in API development.
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Expertise in service‑oriented architecture.
• Expertise with Relational and/or No
  
  SQL Databases and use of Cloud Services.
• Experience with CI/CD and Operational Excellence best practices.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including consensus building, conflict resolution, influence and persuasion skills.
• Mentoring/coaching junior engineers in technical problem solving and career advancement.
• Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience in software development, focusing on building large scale distributed systems.

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…