About Us: As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
Target Tech Overview: Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.
Our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers strive to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.
Pyramid Overview: Our Product Engineering teams fuel Target’s business with cutting-edge technology to deliver incredible experiences and value for guests and team members. Using a responsive architecture platform, we build and deploy industry-leading technology enabling Target to operate efficiently, securely, and reliably from the inside out. We work across Target, developing comprehensive product strategies, leveraging enterprise and guest feedback to set the standard for best in retail.
About You:
As a lead engineer you would be responsible for
Designing scalable architecture with the best choice of tech, responsible for all the services/functionalities that the team develops while ensuring quality of the team's code and/or infrastructure standards.
Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
Planning and delivering of work in the team in addition to their own work. Promotes a learning culture through mentoring and coaching.
Ensures product observability is in place for reliability. Fosters a culture of observability across teams and helps use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Is aware of the operational data for their team’s domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
Responsible for ensuring the security of the product and fostering a security first mindset across teams. Highly skilled with applying and implementing security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, creating logic to detect malicious behavior, and analyzing network or host artifacts.
Able to articulate a technical strategy, value of technology, and impact to the business.
Provides guidance and cultivates solutions for the most complex problems across teams.
Encourages team to adopt a growth mindset. Educates team about how competitors and technology companies evolve their technologies.
Guides the team in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimise the cost of future changes. Evaluates options, defines pros and cons by working with the team, and identifies the best option.
Position Overview: To succeed in this role, you’ll bring over 7+ years of experience in software design and development, with 5+ years focused on building scalable backend applications. You’ll be a proven leader in guiding technical teams and driving products at scale to successful completion. Your expertise will lie in JVM-based technologies, specifically Java and Kotlin, along with a deep understanding of building robust, scalable systems.
Must Have Skills:
Java / Kotlin (Advanced proficiency in Java/Kotlin 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, TestContainers, Selenium)
Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus)
Event-Driven Architecture (Knowledge of event-driven patterns in distributed systems)
Good to Have Skills:
Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in Kotlin)
GraphQL (Experience designing and integrating GraphQL APIs)
Legacy System Modernization (Experience refactoring and modernizing older systems)
Security Best Practices (OWASP, vulnerability scanning, secure coding principles)
Agile Methodologies (Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile processes)
Know More About Us Here:
Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
Follow us on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/target/
Target Tech- https://tech.target.com/
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in software design and development
- 5+ years of experience building scalable backend applications
- Advanced proficiency in Java and Kotlin
- Experience designing, developing, and managing scalable microservices
- Experience with Spring Boot or Micronaut, including reactive programming
- Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra or MongoDB and SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools
- Experience with unit and integration testing using Spock, JUnit, TestContainers, or Selenium
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Grafana, ELK Stack, or Prometheus
- Knowledge of event-driven architecture and distributed-system patterns
- Functional programming familiarity in Kotlin
- GraphQL design and integration experience
- Legacy system modernization experience
- Security best practices including OWASP, vulnerability scanning, and secure coding
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
