PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team:

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of several 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. Each time an associate turns on their laptop, a customer makes a purchase, a new supplier is onboarded, the company closes the books, physical and legal risk is avoided, and when we pay our associates consistently and accurately, that is EBS. 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. 

What you'll do:

Technical Leadership:

• Guide the team in architectural decisions and best practices for building scalable applications.
• Provide multiple alternatives for development frameworks, libraries, and tools.

Development Frameworks. Enable the development of scalable solutions for data intensive batch and streaming applications. Your expertise in and understanding of the following technology frameworks will help us to accelerate our technology modernization:

• Java Frameworks:
  • Spring Boot: Our default choice for creating production-grade Spring-based applications. You should be well versed in building REST, Streaming and Batch applications using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Micronaut: Your knowledge of Micronaut or a related framework that can be used as a alternative of Spring Boot will help us in building modular, easily testable microservice applications.
• Persistence Frameworks:
  • Hibernate: A thorough understanding of this Object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for data handling is required. You will be building applications using Spring Data built on top of Hibernate.
  • MyBatis: As a technical leader you should have broaden your understanding to MyBatis or any other persistence frameworks other than Hibernate for leveraging custom SQL, stored procedures, and advanced mappings.
• Big Data Processing:
  • Apache Spark: It is our unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Prior experience in Java Spark or python spark projects is desirable.
• Streaming Frameworks:
  • Apache Kafka: We extensivily use this distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines. Knowledge and prior experience of Apache Kafka is a must.
  • Apache Pulsar: Your understanding of Multi-tenant, high-performance messaging solution will help us in building platforms.

Mentorship and Team Enablement:

• Conduct workshops and training sessions to enable the team to become proficient in CI/CD practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.
• Provide guidance and support in the adoption of best practices for software development, testing, and deployment.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 10+ years of experience in software design, development and automated deployments.
• 14+ years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development
• Extensive hands-on experience building services using these technologies (Scala, Java, Springboot, Microservices ,NodeJs)
• Hands-on experience in web technologies like React JS/Angular Js, Java script, Type script, CSS
• Have prior experience in delivering highly scalable large scale data processing Java applications.
• Hosted & Participated Architecture Review & Design/Code Review events.
• Hands on System Designing experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• 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 Linux platform
• 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.
• 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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