(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Understanding of cloud technology (architecture and deployments), including Azure Offerings, Cloud storage, Cloud security, Cloud migration.
• Expertise with Relational and/or NoSQL Database.
• Experience with CI/CD and operational excellence best practices.
• Experience with backend languages such as Java, Python or NodeJs.
• Experience with React, TypeScript, CSS, HTML5 and front-end state management solutions such as Redux, Recoil, MobX, or similar.
• Experience with third-party integrations via libraries, SDKs and APIs.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices and supporting an inclusive culture.

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: 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.

Benefits & Perks

• Incentive awards for performance.
• 401(k) match, stock purchase plan.
• Paid maternity and parental leave.
• Paid time off (PTO), including sick leave, holidays, and other purposes.
• Multiple health plans.
• Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U).
• Additional perks such as short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.