Principal Software Engineer

Walmart

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CABentonville, AR
Salary: $95,000–$165,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 39 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Walmart

Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail

Walmart currently has 719 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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As a (USA) Principal Software Engineer - Tech, you will join the team building AI-powered shopping experiences for iOS and Android applications. You will define architecture, establish reusable mobile patterns, and lead complex initiatives to integrate Generative AI into shopping journeys. Your daily responsibilities include building AI-native patterns for conversational, generative UI, multimodal, and agentic experiences while creating reusable frameworks to solve challenges in streaming, dynamic UI, performance, and reliability. You will drive architecture across Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose while partnering with data science, backend, and product teams. The role focuses on the technical challenge of transforming rapidly evolving AI capabilities into intuitive, performant, and reliable customer experiences within a large-scale commerce platform, requiring expertise in distributed systems and mobile-backend architecture.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1206 postings across 79 companies.

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Skills

Swift SwiftUI Kotlin Jetpack Compose iOS Android Generative AI LLMs Distributed Systems Mobile Architecture Backend Architecture Streaming Agentic Systems

What you'll do

Define the architecture for AI-powered experiences across iOS and Android applications.
Build AI-native patterns for conversational, generative UI, multimodal, and agentic experiences.
Create reusable mobile frameworks to enable AI capabilities across the shopping journey.
Solve technical challenges involving streaming, dynamic UI, performance, and application lifecycle.
Drive architecture development using Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
Lead complex cross-team initiatives and conduct architecture reviews.
Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.

What we're looking for

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.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Deep experience building large-scale native iOS and/or Android applications.
Expertise in Swift/SwiftUI and/or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose and modern mobile architecture.
Track record of designing reusable platforms, frameworks, or capabilities used across teams.
Experience defining technical strategy and leading complex, cross-organizational initiatives.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, reliability, and mobile/backend architecture.
Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, conversational, multimodal, or agentic systems (preferred).

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