Principal, Software Engineer, Web

What you’ll do:

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers, conducting code reviews and leading design discussions to ensure engineering best practices.
• Act as a technical authority, providing direction and expertise to the team.
• Drive the adoption of coding standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of our technical architecture, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements.
• Architect complex software systems, ensuring performance, security, and scalability needs are met.
• Consistently produce high-quality software with a focus on unit testing, functional testing, regular code reviews, and continuous integration.
• Uphold high standards in quality and operational excellence.
• Develop comprehensive technical documentation and presentations to clearly communicate architectural decisions and design options.
• Ensure documentation aligns with project scopes, milestones, and deliverables.
• Promote and enforce technical standards across the organization to achieve concrete outcomes and drive engineering excellence.
• Foster a culture of learning and innovation through hands‑on technical guidance and mentorship.
• Lead the discovery phase of major projects, ensuring the design aligns with business goals and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define project scopes and milestones.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX/UI, Quality Assurance, and Dev Ops teams.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Stay at the forefront of technological advancements, conducting research to identify emerging tools and methodologies.

• Ideally 12+ years of experience in software development, focusing on building Frontend Websites/Sharable Widgets.
• Expertise in JavaScript/Type Script, frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, and working with React Router and Redux.
• Proficiency in API integration and development, Node.js, Graph
  
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• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent technical debugging and production support skills.
• Familiarity with public cloud technologies such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of software products with a large user base.
• Excellent decision‑making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast‑paced environment.
• Risk analysis methodologies – cost analysis, business objectives, classification of requirements, domain knowledge, user stories concepts, functional/non‑functional requirements.
• Knowledge of coding standards and guidelines, quality, safety, and security standards, emerging tools and technologies, telemetry, CI/CD, code management tools, SDLC, secure SDLC frameworks and tools.

The Walmart Emerging‑Tech group is a group charted to drive the creation of the next generation retail and shopping experiences for both online and in‑store. The group leads Walmart’s efforts in the areas of Emerging Content, XR, Conversational AI, Voice Assistants, and more. As the Emerging Content team, we are building completely new capabilities to allow our customers discover and interact with products online.

In addition to the end‑user experiences the group also builds platform APIs and tools to enable other teams to leverage next‑generation content.

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 experts 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 skill sets 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…