(usa) Principal, Software Engineer - Global Governance

Walmart Walmart · Retail · ISD - DGTC AR BENTONVILLE, Crossman Service Building CA SUNNYVALE

This Principal Software Engineer role focuses on defining platform strategy and architecture for scalable development, with a specific emphasis on adopting and innovating with Agentic AI and related technologies for risk, compliance, and privacy solutions within Walmart's Enterprise Business Services. The role involves hands-on development of n-tier applications using Microservices, Java/J2EE, and cloud technologies, while also leading and mentoring other engineers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define platform strategy and develop architecture that will enable scalable development across multiple teams, to adopt software excellence principles of reusability, reliability, availability, and resilience
  2. Navigate ambiguous problem definitions and develop technology strategy that works backward from the customer and true North, cross collaborating with Walmart Supply chain tech teams across the Retail and DotCom business, as well as international expansions
  3. Adopt and envision new age of technology solutions using Agentic AI and related technologies. Drive innovations and challenge the status quo of software engineering.
  4. Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions by partnering with the product management, technical program managers, business, and user experience teams. Prepare requested information and obtain cross-function approvals.
  5. Leads the work of other small group of engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples.

Skills

Required

  • Expert in designing and implementing REST API web services using Spring Boot
  • Expert in backend development. Highly hands-on development experience with Node.js, Java/J2EE, Spring, SQL, Hibernate, JavaScript, HTML.
  • Expert in organization running fully automated, end-to-end CI/CD processes.
  • Expert in cloud technologies and related application development.
  • Expert in platform solutions and delivering scalable and highly performant applications.
  • Strong experience in persistent storage technologies including Relational Databases, NoSQL etc.

Nice to have

  • Good Experience in developing solutions with GenAI/Agentic AI and Machine learning technologies
  • Good Experience in UI technologies like React Web, React Native, React JS.
  • Good Experience with development tools such as Git, Maven, and Splunk. Preferred usage of Co-pilot integrated IDEs including likes of Windsurf.
  • Proficiency in testing and troubleshooting using JUnit tests.
  • Experience with SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies.

What the JD emphasized

  • Agentic AI
  • risk, compliance, and privacy solution
  • Agentic AI and related technologies

Other signals

  • Agentic AI
  • risk, compliance, privacy solutions
  • software excellence principles