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.
Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency solutions.
- Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to refine requirements, design solutions, and perform code reviews.
- Scalability & Reliability: Ensure microservices are fault-tolerant and can handle high traffic.
- Observability & Monitoring: Set up metrics, tracing, and logs to maintain operational health.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and best practices to junior team members.
- Continuous Learning: Keep up-to-date with the latest trends in distributed systems and backend technologies.
About you:
- 5+ years in software design & development; at least 4 years building scalable backend apps in Java or Kotlin.
- Microservices & Distributed Systems: Proven track record designing and implementing microservices, working with event-driven systems.
- Databases: Strong knowledge of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non relational databases.
- Messaging: Hands-on experience with Kafka for data streaming and messaging.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Observability: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, ELK, Micrometer, OpenTelemetry).
- Performance Optimization: Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize system capacity, throughput, and latency.
- Nice-to-Have Skills:Exposure to NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.), Analytical stores (BigQuerry, etc), Apache Beam.
- Experience with advanced CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Drone, etc.).
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/
Skills Required
- 5+ years of software design and development experience
- At least 4 years building scalable backend applications in Java or Kotlin
- Experience designing and implementing microservices and event-driven systems
- Strong knowledge of relational databases including PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with non-relational databases
- Hands-on experience with Kafka for data streaming and messaging
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, ELK, Micrometer, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience analyzing and optimizing system capacity, throughput, and latency
- Exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or Cassandra
- Exposure to analytical stores such as BigQuery
- Exposure to Apache Beam
- Experience with advanced CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Drone
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.
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