Walmart is a multi-national people led tech powered omnichannel retailer with over 2.2M associates. At People.AI, we help, support and empower the Walmart’s HR function with AI and GenAI solutions to improve productivity, harnessing the opportunities for growth, focusing on well-being and cultivating cultures of belonging for all Walmart's associates. People.AI is a horizontal data science team supporting People Tech and Services across a multitude of use-cases and business domains. 

People.AI strategy aims to empower the people business and associates by converting Walmart’s people data, business processes, knowledge and HR subject matter expertise into different productivity experiences like knowledge search and Q&A, data analytics and insights, actions and recommendations etc. People.AI is building a GenAI powered platform named My Assistant to enable all Walmart associates with multitude of integrated services and experiences that will directly help in increasing productivity and boost associate satisfaction. 

The People.AI team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer, Frontend. In this individual contributor role, you are expected to be the technical subject matter expert, mentor, and industry leader for creating highly performant, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile applications that exceed customer and business needs. You need to possess outstanding development experience in React Native, React, NextJs, Typescript Node.js with a deep passion for design and customer experience. Also, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and systems with responsibilities including leading the creation and maintenance of high-quality code, aligning it with business goals and scalability requirements, and architecting complex software systems to ensure performance, security, and scalability needs are met. Additionally, the role involves providing hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, and establishing and enforcing coding standards through thorough code reviews. 

About Team: 

The EBS People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience. 

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools. 

What you'll do: 

This is a vital role with significant growth prospects. You will have work to do from day one and you will be counted on to create opportunities that align with the overall organization goals. Some of this role’s key responsibilities are but not limited to:  

• Lead, own, and/or support the development of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable front-end applications using React Native and React 

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver software products that meet business goals and user needs  

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers in best practices, design patterns, and development methodologies  

• Providing technical guidance and expertise to ensure the highest level of quality and performance in our front-end applications  

•  Enhancing usage, metrics, and logging details  

• Support CI/CD effort, configuration, and enhancements   

• Support in release, deployment activities, and production support rotation   

• Staying up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the field of front-end development and applying this knowledge to drive innovation and improvement 

• Work in an Agile environment as part of a scrum team   

• Help design end-to-end system architecture for data-intensive applications   

• Collaborate with machine learning engineers, applied researchers and data scientists to iteratively improve integration our GenAI/ML services and refine MLOps practice  

• Support production operations by participating in on-call rotations   

What you’ll bring: 

• You have 13+ years' experience in designing and developing highly performant, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile applications 

• You have a bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, information technology, or related area 

• Expert level knowledge of React, React Native, NextJs, Typescript Node.js   

• Experience in writing effective test cases and test automation   

• Experience in implementing QE strategy, frameworks and automation for mobile and web applications. 

•  Experience releasing mobile solutions to App Store and Google play store, and web solutions to production 

• Experience taking ideas to implementation  

• Deep understanding, and experience of debugging issues in mobile and web applications   

• Experience with data storage and data retrieval   

• Experience with authorization and authentication frameworks in implementing those into mobile and web applications   

• Experience with version control using Git in collaboration settings 

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug complex issues and optimize application performance  

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders  

• A good understanding of and experience integrating with AI/ML/GenAI services and components 

• Excitement about delivering distributed machine learning systems at scale in production   

• You are thorough and detail oriented   

• You believe in the importance of establishing work standards and leveraging automations   

• You have a history of collaboration, openness, honesty, timely decision making, and clear communication in both verbal and written forms   

• You embrace lifelong learning - always learning new technologies and techniques. You are also engaged in the open-source communities to both find answers and help others   

About Global Tech 

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption. 

Ways of Working 

Flexible, hybrid work 

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.