Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Lead and participates in medium
• to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements and translating requirements into technical solutions.
• Conduct unit testing and communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Actively participate and lead the technical requirements analysis, design review, contract closure with cross-functional teams.
• Participate in and identify architectural improvements, code review, best practices, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable, high-performance software solutions.
• Take ownership of full-stack development, including front-end and back-end components.
• Utilize your expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices to create robust and efficient applications.
• Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.
• Manage and maintain multiple production and non-production environments.
• Build, leverage and analyze tools, application logs, and analytics data to determine improvements to the product and engineering services.
• Encourage a culture of innovation, creativity, and high standards within the team.

Requirements

• 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.
• Proven track record of building successful software systems from inception to deployment.
• Proven track record of building solutions that solve highly complex business problems.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, CI/CD, and operational excellence best practices.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven track record of mentoring and coaching engineers in technical problem-solving and career development.
• Proficiency in building REST APIs and frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience in designing and developing enterprise solutions in Java/J2EE following multi-tier architecture.
• Basic understanding of JavaScript & any one Front end frameworks like React.js & Angular would be preferred.
• Experience with containerization technology like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with any one of Testing framework is preferred.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology and leveraging SDLC tools to improve development, CI/CD, and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint).
• Experience with Azure Cloud Stack, GCP or other cloud stacks.
• Knowledge of open-source libraries, design patterns and micro-service architecture.
• Hands on knowledge with RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres.
• Hands on working experience in any messaging platform like Kafka is preferred.
• Excellent understanding of DS/Algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of GraphQL APIs is an added advantage.
• Awareness of .NET, C# is an added advantage.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• GraphQL
• Hibernate
• J2EE
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• JUnit
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• MySQL
• Postgres
• RDBMS
• React
• SDLC
• Selenium
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• .NET

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates covering tuition, books, and fees completely paid for by Walmart.