Principal Software Engineer (Bentonville/Bellevue)

As a Walmart Principal Engineer on the Payroll Integrations team, you'll spearhead the development of cutting-edge payroll solutions for over 2 million associates. You will set the technical direction for multiple engineering teams, leading and mentoring other senior engineers. With a hands-on approach, you'll deliver critical path code and serve as a force multiplier for our team, ensuring accurate and timely payments with zero defects or manual touchpoints. If you're ready to make a lasting impact in the world of payroll technology for the largest private employer in the world, we would love for you to consider this position.


Responsibilities:
Lead the design, development and launch of large high impact applications, services and systems.
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.
Be the role model and exemplary practitioner in the team, and establish mechanisms (design reviews, code reviews, OE reviews, root cause analysis, etc.) to ensure high quality, high availability, scalable and performant systems are delivered. Advocate the use of latest technology and system integration patterns, cutting across team boundaries.
Develop subject matter expertise in payroll space and be the voice of the team in technical and business forums.

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Required Skills & Experience

At least 10+ years of relevant industry experience in building highly available systems.
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from inception to launch of multiple complex and ambiguous projects.
Effective problem-solving skills, ability to make design tradeoffs, balancing the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
Expertise in service-oriented architecture.
Expertise with Relational and/or NoSQL Databases and use of Cloud Services.
Experience with CI/CD and Operational Excellence best practices.
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.


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.