Principal, Software Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Principal Software Engineer role focused on applying GenAI to revolutionize customer service experiences at Walmart's scale. The role involves driving architecture, design, and development of scalable solutions, providing technical leadership, and mentoring teams. It emphasizes building consumer-facing systems and collaborating with product/business teams to achieve business goals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Stay abreast with technical advancements and drive system architecture and software development processes.
  2. Lead and mentor teams in the implementation of complex systems, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
  3. Be hands-on in prototyping, researching, and coding scalable, consumer-facing systems.
  4. Collaborate with business and product teams to achieve our long-term business goals.
  5. Champion operational and engineering excellence.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience
  • building highly available systems
  • building successful software systems from inception to deployment
  • building solutions that solve highly complex business problems
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills
  • design trade-offs
  • distributed systems
  • service-oriented architecture
  • CI/CD
  • operational excellence best practices
  • Java
  • React
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills
  • consensus building
  • conflict resolution
  • influence
  • persuasion skills
  • mentoring and coaching engineers
  • technical problem-solving
  • career development
  • Curiosity
  • strong ability to learn new domains and technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area OR 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

What the JD emphasized

  • exceptional technical expertise
  • building scalable products with GenAI
  • Walmart scale solutions
  • customer service agents globally
  • GenAI technology in complex enterprise applications
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience
  • building highly available systems
  • building successful software systems from inception to deployment
  • building solutions that solve highly complex business problems
  • Expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, CI/CD, and operational excellence best practices

Other signals

  • GenAI technology
  • customer service experience
  • Walmart's scale
  • scalable products with GenAI
  • Customer Care friction free, fast and delightful
  • GenAI technology in complex enterprise applications