Lead Mobile Architect for AI-Powered Shopping

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 95,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) and stock purchase plan

Paid time off and family leave

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Mobile to shape the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences across Walmart’s iOS and Android apps. You will define architecture, establish reusable mobile patterns, and lead initiatives that bring Generative AI into the shopping journey for millions of customers.

You’ll collaborate across mobile, AI/ML, backend, data science, product, and design teams to deliver intuitive, performant experiences at Walmart scale.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale native mobile applications for iOS and/or Android.
• Strong ability to design reusable platforms, frameworks, or capabilities used across teams.
• Experience defining technical strategy and leading cross-organizational initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for AI-powered experiences across Walmart’s iOS and Android apps.
• Build AI-native patterns spanning conversational, generative UI, multimodal, and agentic experiences.
• Create reusable mobile frameworks that enable AI across the shopping journey.
• Solve challenges involving streaming, dynamic UI, context, performance, reliability, and lifecycle.
• Drive architecture across Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose.
• Partner with mobile, AI/ML, backend, data science, product, and design teams.
• Lead complex cross-team initiatives and architecture reviews.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.

Skills

Large-scale mobile apps

Swift/SwiftUI

Kotlin/Jetpack Compose

Mobile architecture

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / related field

Tools

SwiftUI

Jetpack Compose

Generative AI

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Mobile to shape the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences across Walmart’s iOS and Android apps. You will define architecture, establish reusable mobile patterns, and lead initiatives that bring Generative AI into the shopping journey for millions of customers.

You’ll collaborate across mobile, AI/ML, backend, data science, product, and design teams to deliver intuitive, performant experiences at Walmart scale.