Principal Software Engineer (AI)

Location: USA ISD Office - DGTC AR BENTONVILLE Home Office; primary location: 805 SE Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America

Annual salary: $110,000–$220,000, plus performance bonuses and potential stock compensation.

Company

hirify.global supports Walmart’s technology ecosystem and digital solutions for a global associate community, including compensation and benefits management platforms.

What you will do

• Define technical vision, cloud-native architecture, and platform capabilities across the Associate and Agentic Experiences domain.
• Lead design reviews, architecture decisions, and cross-team technical alignment.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build mobile-first associate experiences with React Native and own end-to-end delivery from APIs and UI components through observability.
• Build production AI agents and promote AI coding agents for engineering and product workflows.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers and lead incident reviews, postmortems, and reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with cloud-native architecture principles.
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and reusable tooling.
• Strong proficiency in AI/ML integration and intelligent software systems using languages such as Python and Java.
• Experience designing and building AI agents, including at least one production deployment.
• Experience using AI agents to write, generate, or review code through agentic coding workflows.
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing, and incident response.
• Demonstrated skills in technical solution design, requirements analysis, problem solving, collaboration, and mentorship.
• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 5 years of software engineering or related experience; or Option 2: 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Experience creating inclusive digital experiences, implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards, using assistive technologies, and applying digital accessibility best practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, vision, dental, 401(k), stock purchase, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid time off including sick, parental, family care, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Additional benefits include company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and performance-based bonuses.
• Live Better U provides Walmart-paid education programs, including high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.
• Benefits and eligibility depend on job classification and length of employment and may be subject to plan terms.
• Walmart maintains a drug-free workplace and does not tolerate illegal drugs or alcohol use on the job.