Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Title: Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 6+ Month

Job Description:

As a Principal Engineer in @Platform, you ll have the opportunity to help define and implement components of our next-generation, Global e-Commerce Platform. This hands-on position, will be responsible to design, build, develop and implement the platform upon which the walmart.com, sams.com, ASDA, and other ecommerce brands will rest. In short, creating a massively scalable, high performance multi-tenant e-Commerce platform on a Java stack leveraging both commercial and Open Source software. The position will serve as a technical leader for the development teams working on aspects of this platform. Some of the key areas you will work in and contribute to will span across e-Commerce applications, Search, and Content, Item, Order and Inventory Management. Responsibilities also span into Integrations with Retail, Supply Chain, Fulfillment, and Warehouse Management System. A wide degree of creativity, flexibility, and efficiency is desired.

Responsibilities will include:

- Leads the discovery phase of large projects to develop high level design

- Provides hands on leadership for the design and development effort for large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects.

- Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues

- Mentors junior engineers through formal and informal discussions, code reviews, design reviews, and technical presentations.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

- A Positive "can do" attitude with the ability to articulate thoughts and ideas and see them to fruition.

- Hands on, demonstrated experience in field with relevant accomplishments and competency

- 10+ years’ experience building scalable cloud applications

- 10+ years’ experience developing using Java EE technologies

- 8+ years’ experience writing multi-threaded high performance applications

- 5+ years’ experience developing service-oriented (SOA) and REST architectures

- 5+ years’ experience developing using NoSQL databases such as Cassandra or relational databases such as Oracle or MySQL

- 5+ years’ experience in messaging queue

- 5+ years’ experience in Unit-testing (Junit, TestNG, Jmock, MockIt, etc.)

- 4+ years’ experience in Source Control systems such as Git, ClearCase, CVS, Subversion

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.