Lead Engineer - Target India
Target · Posted Nov 5
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target Tech is the in-house technology organization behind Target stores and Target.com, with Product Engineering teams building and deploying retail technology. The Lead Engineer will design scalable architecture, contribute hands-on to complex development, and guide teams on observability, security, and technical strategy. The role focuses on JVM-based backend systems using Java/Kotlin, microservices, cloud services, and event-driven architecture.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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)
- Messaging Systems (Kafka)
- Databases (Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, and SQL-based databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- CI/CD (Building and managing pipelines with standard CI/CD tools)
- Unit and Integration Testing (Spock, JUnit)
- Cloud Services (GCP)
- Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Event-Driven Architecture (Strong understanding of building and managing event-driven systems)
Preferred qualifications
- Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in Kotlin)
- 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)
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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