Walmart
Principal, Software Engineer
Walmart, California, Missouri, United States, 65018
Walmart Global Tech is looking to hire a
Principal Software Engineer (Backend Focused)
for their Marketplace Engineering team. An ideal candidate must have expertise in Java, strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, cloud application development, automation tools, CI/CD pipeline, and a proven understanding of microservices and REST APIs.
As a part of Walmart Global Tech, you will build industry defining seller and customer experiences in growing the marketplace platform. You will be in the unique position to bring a broader impact to Walmart's customers and sellers by providing insights and intelligence on marketplace related transactions and provide capabilities to associates in supporting all segments of Walmart. If you are the type of person who feels a personal stake in everything that you work on, has a love for data, enjoys solving complex problems, has a passion for privacy, knows how to foster strong relationships and build trust, and works for the success of the entire team.
About TeamThe Marketplace Engineering team is at the forefront of building core platforms and services to enable Walmart to deliver vast selection at competitive prices and with best-in-class customer experience by enabling third-party sellers to the marketplace platform, sell and manage their products to our customers on walmart.com. We do this by managing the entire seller lifecycle, monitoring customer experience, and delivering high-value insights to our sellers to help them plan their assortment, price, and inventory. The team also actively collaborates with partner platform teams to ensure we continue to deliver the best experience to our sellers and our customers.
What You'll Do
Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
Develop highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms.
Design and develop backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go).
Collaborate with project teams and cross-functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide input on project plan.
Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
Provide support to the business by responding to users' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.
Drive projects of high visibility across the organization.
Lead team in designing systems and apps.
Lead team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information.
Lead the discovery phase of projects to produce high-level design by partnering with the product management, project management, and business and user experience teams.
What You Will BringAt least 7 years of experience in
architecting large scale systems
with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
Expertise in
one or more programming languages
(e.g. Java, Python, etc.).
Strong background in
algorithms and data structures .
Experience in leading teams and delivering
large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Proven understanding
of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public or private
cloud offerings
(e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure).
Experience using any of the automation toolset like
Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling , etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment experience is a plus.
Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, Scrum).
Experience and fluency with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, etc.).
Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
Understanding of
machine learning preferred.
Previous experience in the marketplace domain.
Minimum Qualifications...Option 1: 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.Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.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. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America.
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Principal Software Engineer (Backend Focused)
for their Marketplace Engineering team. An ideal candidate must have expertise in Java, strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures, cloud application development, automation tools, CI/CD pipeline, and a proven understanding of microservices and REST APIs.
As a part of Walmart Global Tech, you will build industry defining seller and customer experiences in growing the marketplace platform. You will be in the unique position to bring a broader impact to Walmart's customers and sellers by providing insights and intelligence on marketplace related transactions and provide capabilities to associates in supporting all segments of Walmart. If you are the type of person who feels a personal stake in everything that you work on, has a love for data, enjoys solving complex problems, has a passion for privacy, knows how to foster strong relationships and build trust, and works for the success of the entire team.
About TeamThe Marketplace Engineering team is at the forefront of building core platforms and services to enable Walmart to deliver vast selection at competitive prices and with best-in-class customer experience by enabling third-party sellers to the marketplace platform, sell and manage their products to our customers on walmart.com. We do this by managing the entire seller lifecycle, monitoring customer experience, and delivering high-value insights to our sellers to help them plan their assortment, price, and inventory. The team also actively collaborates with partner platform teams to ensure we continue to deliver the best experience to our sellers and our customers.
What You'll Do
Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership that helps accelerate adoption of the absolute best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends, and practices.
Lead and participate in medium to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing, and developing code, and conducting unit testing. Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
Develop highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
Gaining exposure to various technologies used in Marketplace and E-commerce platforms.
Design and develop backend microservices and APIs for web applications using JVM ecosystem (Kotlin, Java) and other languages and frameworks (Python, Go).
Collaborate with project teams and cross-functional teams. Troubleshoot open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Interact with project manager to provide input on project plan.
Troubleshoot business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues. Formulate action plans, performing actions as designated in the plan. Interpret the results to determine further action, perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and complete online documentation.
Provide support to the business by responding to users' questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies). Facilitate resolutions and lead cross-functional partnerships.
Drive projects of high visibility across the organization.
Lead team in designing systems and apps.
Lead team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information.
Lead the discovery phase of projects to produce high-level design by partnering with the product management, project management, and business and user experience teams.
What You Will BringAt least 7 years of experience in
architecting large scale systems
with challenges of scalability and delivering sub-second latencies on 99.99% uptime.
Expertise in
one or more programming languages
(e.g. Java, Python, etc.).
Strong background in
algorithms and data structures .
Experience in leading teams and delivering
large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Proven understanding
of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
Experience with cloud application development including scalable, data driven, Cloud Cost-optimization and message-oriented architecture.
Understanding of SaaS or PaaS or IaaS industry with hands-on experience with public or private
cloud offerings
(e.g., AWS, GAE, Azure).
Experience using any of the automation toolset like
Appium, Selenium, Jira, Rest Assured, AssetJ, Gatling , etc. or equivalent tools is a plus.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices. Automated deployment experience is a plus.
Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, Scrum).
Experience and fluency with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, etc.).
Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
Understanding of
machine learning preferred.
Previous experience in the marketplace domain.
Minimum Qualifications...Option 1: 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.Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.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. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America.
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