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:

Last Mile Delivery which is Walmart’s own platform Spark Program and enables deliveries from Walmart to customer door step with the help of Spark Drivers. It provides a one-stop solution to help Walmart expand its last mile delivery network by connecting Walmart Stores to most of the US population.

Last Mile has been made available as a Service for external clients (outside of Walmart Network). This team owns and supports a complex system which is responsible for delivering more than million orders and providing best of experience to our customer, drivers and operations. It’s built upon the latest tech stack, cloud platform and powers multiple capabilities and experiences using ML models.

If you are looking for high impact, high growth opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you. This role requires innovative and strong technical acumen.

What you will do:

As a Principal Software Engineer for Walmart Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to

• Design distributed systems considering scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, Minimum Viable Product- MVP & Non-Functional Requirements.
• Create simple, modular, extensible and functional design in adherence to the requirements for multiple products/solutions within a domain.
• Work with the Product team to understand Customer requirements and analyze the gaps between existing architecture and customer requirements.
• Analyse system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security.
• Create detailed design using mock screens, pseudo codes and detailed functional logic of the modules for an entire product. Finalize the tech stack.
• Review the MVP to uncover risks and check for performance and usability; guide the team during MVP creation.
• Be the technical leader for the team & not only guiding but actively supporting team as needed and takes end to end ownership of design and architecture of multiple large-scale products.
• Ensure products are well designed, well built and have flexible architectures to meet business needs and future extensibility.
• Contribute actively to tech and arch councils, constantly strive for engineering and operational excellence across the product lines.
• Lead and advocate Agile engineering practices, with a focus on continuous improvement, lean and systems thinking.
• Triaging and Troubleshooting including regression testing, root cause analysis (RCA), root cause corrective action (RCCA) To guide team members in RCA and RCCA to identify the origins of and prevent defects/performance gaps.
• Good active listener, being able to hear and include propositions from other engineers in the final solution.
• Investigate the latest technology trends and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future/current business needs
• Perform code reviews, design reviews, guide the test team with the user scenarios

What you will bring:

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• 15+ years of experience in 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 practises by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Having proficiency Java/J2EE, Microservices, Cloud Native Architecture
• Hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java SpringBoot, Dropwizard or equivalent framework).
• Good knowledge in 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 development and design of 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 configurations tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

About 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. 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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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