Engineer - Backend with Gen Ai
Target · Posted Nov 2
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target's Merchandising portfolio within Product Engineering provides reliable data and aggregation services for enterprise retail operations, covering pricing, promotions, item, supplier, owned brand, and merchandise planning domains. Target Tech builds technology for Target's stores and e-commerce experiences. This role develops scalable backend applications and integrates LLM/GenAI features, including agentic frameworks, hallucination mitigation, observability, and security practices.
What you will do
- As an Engineer you would be responsible for Developing scalable applications and services using appropriate technologies, contributing to the design and implementation of functionalities that the team develops while ensuring code quality and adherence to engineering standards.
- Hands-on development, taking ownership of assigned tasks and features.
- Ensures solutions are production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
- Planning and delivering their own work in collaboration with the team.
- Actively participates in knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
- Ensures product observability is in place for reliability.
- Contributes to monitoring and observability practices within the team and uses operational data to identify opportunities for improving stability and performance of the team's services.
- Responsible for following security best practices in product development and contributing to a security-first mindset.
- Familiar with applying security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, secure coding practices, and addressing security issues.
- Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and GenAI -powered features into core applications.
- Develop and enhance systems that mitigate hallucinations and improve AI reliability.
- Experience building or integrating agentic frameworks and AI-driven automation for process enhancement.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- To succeed in this role, you'll bring 2–4 years of experience in software design and development, with a focus on building scalable backend applications.
- You will have hands-on experience with JVM-based technologies, specifically Java and Kotlin, along with an understanding of building robust, scalable systems.
- Experience with Agentic AI, LLM integration, and AI-driven automation is expected.
- Java & Python (Hands-on experience in backend development, AI, and automation workflows using Java and Python)
- Microservices Architecture (Experience developing and maintaining scalable microservices)
- Spring Boot or Micronaut (Experience with JVM-based frameworks, with familiarity in reactive programming)
- AI / LLM Integration (Experience integrating Large Language Models and GenAI features into applications)
- AI Reliability & Automation (Hands-on experience building or integrating agentic frameworks, reducing hallucinations, and implementing 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 (Experience working with pipelines using 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)
Preferred qualifications
- Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in Kotlin)
- GraphQL (Familiarity with designing and integrating GraphQL APIs)
- Legacy System Modernization (Exposure to refactoring and modernizing older systems)
- Security Best Practices (OWASP, vulnerability scanning, secure coding principles)
- Agile Methodologies (Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile processes)
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 415000+ employees
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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