Principal, Software Engineer, Front End

Role Overview

Principal, Software Engineer (Front End) at Walmart Emerging-Tech. You will lead engineering direction for next-generation retail content experiences, helping design and deliver scalable frontend systems and shared widgets.

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers: code reviews, design discussions, and ensuring engineering best practices.
• Act as a technical authority, setting direction and owning architecture decisions.
• Drive adoption of standards: coding standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Lead technical architecture creation and maintenance aligned with business goals, scalability, performance, and security.
• Architect complex systems and ensure performance, security, and scalability requirements are met.
• Produce high-quality software with strong emphasis on unit testing, functional testing, regular code reviews, and continuous integration.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and presentations to communicate architecture and design options.
• Promote and enforce technical standards organization-wide to drive engineering excellence.
• Lead discovery for major projects, ensuring solutions align with business goals and technical requirements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, UX/UI, QA, and DevOps.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current by researching emerging tools and methodologies.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience, focused on building frontend websites/shared widgets.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks including React (also mentions Vue and Angular).
• Experience with React Router and Redux.
• Proficiency in API integration and development.
• Node.js experience.
• GraphQL (GQL) experience.
• Advanced knowledge of distributed system design, software design, design patterns, and data structures/algorithms.
• Strong debugging and production support skills.
• Familiarity with major public cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience delivering software products with large user bases.
• Strong decision-making in fast-paced environments with conflicting priorities.
• Risk analysis and requirements analysis concepts (e.g., cost analysis, user stories, functional/non-functional requirements).
• Knowledge of SDLC topics including coding standards, security/Secure SDL, telemetry, and CI/CD.

Nice to Haves

• Not explicitly stated beyond the detailed SDLC/standards and risk analysis toolset.