Walmart Principal Software Engineer Back End Marketplace Sunnyvale 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

466155042

in Sunnyvale, California. An .

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 the 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.

• 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.

• Developing 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
  .

• Designing and developing

  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 provid e 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.

• Driving projects of high visibility across the organization.

• Leading team in

  designing systems and apps

• Leading team projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions while gathering requested information

• Leading the discovery phase of projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, and business and user experience teams.

• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience with 10+ 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.

• 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, PaaS, 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 in

  large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures

• 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 .

• Previous experience in the marketplace domain

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.

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.