Senior Engineer - Target India

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. Manage total product, financials and forecasting. Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met. Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

What We're Looking For

• 4-8 years of software development experience building scalable and distributed applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for engineering excellence.
• Experience working in Agile teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Self-driven individual with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Passion for learning new technologies and applying them to solve business problems.
• Ability to mentor peers and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Must Have Skills:

• Java 17+ (Advanced proficiency in Java development)
• Microservices Architecture (Designing, developing, and managing scalable microservices)
• Spring Boot or Micronaut (Experience with JVM-based frameworks, including reactive programming)
• Messaging Systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Databases (Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, and SQL-based databases like PostgreSQL)
• CI/CD (Building and managing pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools)
• Unit and Integration Testing (Spock, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium)
• Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, Azure - At least one)
• Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Datadog)
• Event-Driven Architecture (Knowledge of event-driven patterns in distributed systems) ‌
• Experience developing modern web applications using ReactJS and TypeScript.
• Experience integrating Generative AI and AI-powered capabilities into enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern AI integration patterns.

Good to Have Skills:

• Agile Methodologies (Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile processes)
• Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in Kotlin)
• Knowledge of AI application evaluation, observability, governance, and guardrail frameworks.
• Exposure to Spring AI or similar frameworks for building AI-enabled enterprise solutions.

Know More About Us here:

• Life at Target: https://india.target.com/

• Benefits: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

• Culture: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging

• Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/