Walmart

(USA) Principal, Software Engineer

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2 days ago
Bentonville, AR, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$110k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define technical vision, architecture, and cross-team technical alignment for systems in the Associate and Agentic Experiences domain.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
  • Build and optimize mobile-first associate experiences using React Native.
  • Own complex features end to end, from APIs through UI components and observability.
  • Build production AI agents that automate, augment, and orchestrate engineering and product workflows.
  • Use AI coding agents to improve development throughput and code quality.
  • Lead design reviews, architecture decisions, incident reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
  • Mentor and grow senior and staff engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area plus five years of software engineering or related experience, or seven years of software engineering or related experience.
  • Extensive experience with cloud-native architecture, scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems, and reusable tooling.
  • Strong proficiency integrating AI/ML and building intelligent software systems using Python and Java.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and building AI agents, including at least one production deployment.
  • Experience using AI agents to write, generate, or review code.
  • Expertise across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing, and incident response.
  • Strong technical solution design, requirements analysis, problem-solving, collaboration, and mentorship skills.
  • Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant field plus three years of software engineering experience.
  • Preferred: experience with inclusive digital experiences, WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage; 401(k), stock purchase, company-paid life insurance, disability coverage, and performance-based bonuses.
  • Paid time off and/or PPTO, including sick leave, holidays, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, voting leave, and military leave pay.
  • Company discounts, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and other Walmart benefits subject to eligibility and plan terms.
  • Walmart-paid Live Better U education benefits covering eligible programs from high school completion through bachelor’s degrees, English language learning, and short-form certificates, including tuition, books, and fees.
  • The position is based at 805 SE Moberly Ln., Bentonville, Arkansas.

Tech Stack

JavaPythonReact NativeSpring Boot
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About Walmart

10,000+ employees

Walmart is a global omnichannel retailer that sells groceries, general merchandise, and services through Walmart and Sam's Club stores and online marketplaces for consumers and small businesses. Its model spans physical retail, e-commerce, advertising, and a vast supply chain, plus pharmacy, health, and financial services. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart Inc. is a public company on the NYSE (WMT) operating in the U.S. and multiple international markets.

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