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.
About Pyramid: Merchandising is a Portfolio within Target – Product Engineering provide reliable data that is core to our enterprise retail operations, including foundational data and aggregation services at scale for retail and commerce platforms. We deal with data around Pricing, Promotions, Item, Supplier, Owned Brand, Merch Planning, Space Presentation & Transitions(SPT) & Intelligence Automation.
As a Senior 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.
Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and GenAI-powered features into core applications.
Build robust systems that mitigate hallucinations and improve AI reliability.
Experience building agentic frameworks and AI-driven automation for process enhancement
Position Overview: To succeed in this role, you’ll bring over 4-7 years of experience in software design and development, with focus on building scalable backend applications. 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 & Python (Advanced proficiency in backend, AI, and automation workflows using Java and Python)
Microservices Architecture (Designing, developing, and managing scalable microservices)
Spring Boot or Micronaut (Experience with JVM-based frameworks, including reactive programming)
AI / LLM Integration (Integrating Large Language Models and GenAI features into core applications)
AI Reliability & Automation (Building agentic frameworks, reducing hallucinations, and improving process automation using OpenAI APIs and SDKs)
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 for Java; PyTest, Unittest for Python)
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)
Skills Required
- Over 4-7 years of software design and development experience
- Advanced proficiency in Java and Python for backend, AI, and automation
- Experience with microservices architecture and JVM-based frameworks
- Experience integrating Large Language Models and GenAI features into applications
- Experience with CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins or GitLab
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.
