About the Role Walmart's Me@Walmart is the mobile experience that puts the power of Walmart in every associate's hands — 2M+ associates globally, across every store, DC, and market.As the Principal Engineer for Me@Walmart Global Platform (International), you'll be the senior technical anchor responsible for how our International markets (Mexico, Canada, Chile, Central America) consume, adapt, and extend the Me@Walmart Global Platform.This isn't a role that ships features.This is the role that ensures features can be shipped — on time, at scale, across languages, currencies, and regulatory realities — without every market team reinventing the wheel.You'll own the technical direction for how Me@Walmart lands in every International market, feed our market-specific requirements back into the Integral Platform, and coach the Staff engineers who execute the day-to-day delivery What You'll Do Own the technical direction for Me@Walmart Global Platform (International) Author and evolve the Me@Walmart International Platform strategy — a multi-quarter technical roadmap covering integration surface, extension points, multi-market rollout patterns, and the standard operating model for market teams to consume the Global Platform.Represent International Tech in US Me@Walmart Global Platform forums — ensuring our market realities (LGPD, LFPDPPP, local payment methods, language, currency, offline-first store use cases) are reflected upstream, not bolted on downstream.Chair the International Me@Walmart Design Review (bi-weekly, cross-market)



and set the ADR / RFC standard the org will operate by.Drive cross-market platform adoption and parity Define and publish an International Parity Matrix — the objective view of how each market compares to the US Me@Walmart baseline (features shipped, platform versions consumed, technical debt outstanding, gaps prioritized).
Partner with each market's Engineering Manager and Staff engineers on market-specific rollout plans for Global Platform capabilities.Own the mini-app / plug-in extension model for International, including the table.loop registry governance, semver policy, and deprecation lifecycle.Elevate the engineering practice around you Coach and calibrate Staff-tier engineers across MX (Firebase INTL, MAGIC frameworks, Polaris WFM Interfaces, Store Systems).
Named coaching relationships, not drive-by mentorship.Author public engineering artifacts — ADRs, RFCs, internal blog posts, tech talks — that document how we make platform decisions at International Tech.Serve as calibration and promotion signal for Sr Staff and Staff SWE promo cycles.Own International Me@Walmart reliability conversational Spanish is a strong plus (audience in MX is bilingual.Comfort with MX Central hours + occasional early-morning overlap with US Bentonville.Strongly Preferred Prior work in retail, fintech, or super-app environments where the mobile app is the product (not a companion experience).
Experience with mini-app / plug-in architectures (WeChat, Alipay, Line, Grab, or in house equivalents.Hands-on with Firebase (Remote Config, A/B, Crashlytics, App Distribution, FCM) at scale.Comfort with observability

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