Principal, Software Engineer - AI

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Are you passionate about pioneering cutting-edge technology combining mobile, data, and AI to revolutionize Walmart's associate (employee) experiences? Do you dream of creating innovative systems and products that make a big impact to more than 2 million users across the globe?

As a Walmart Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and implementing digital solutions that solve mission critical business problems in supporting Walmart associates. 

About Team:

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams including business, product and other software engineers to understand the business problem, review business requirements, draft technical requirements, scope, design, develop, test, and deploy services and systems.
• Lead your team in performing design and code reviews, improving operational excellence to ensure high quality, high availability, scalable and performant systems.
• Create large sized, complex applications, services and systems.
• Lead in a number of layers in the tech stack, from front-end development to back-end services and data platform.

What you'll bring:

• At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from inception to deployment of complex project in production.
• Effective problem-solving skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.  
• Expertise in service-oriented architecture.  
• Expertise with Relational and/or NoSQL Database.
• Experience with CI/CD and operational excellence best practices.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including consensus building, conflict resolution, influence and persuasion skills.
• Mentoring/coaching junior engineers in technical problem solving and career advancement.  

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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Ou