TargetEngineer - Target India
Target is hiring an Engineer - Target India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Target.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include prompt engineering, RAG and AI agents.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 14,000+ other open roles at Target.
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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 an engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
What We're Looking For
- 2-4 years of software development experience building web applications, APIs, or distributed systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for software engineering.
- Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to the successful delivery of business features.
- Self-driven individual with a strong sense of accountability and a willingness to take ownership of assigned work.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Eagerness to build scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
- Continuous learning mindset with a curiosity for emerging technologies and engineering best practices.
Must Have Skills
- Java 17+ (Strong foundation in Java development, object-oriented programming, and core Java concepts)
- Spring Boot (Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices)
- Microservices Fundamentals (Understanding of service-oriented architectures, API-driven development, and distributed systems concepts)
- Messaging Systems (Experience or exposure to Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms)
- Databases (Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- CI/CD Fundamentals (Experience working with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar continuous integration and deployment tools)
- Unit and Integration Testing (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, or similar testing frameworks)
- Cloud Platforms (Exposure to AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Containerization (Experience with Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus)
- Version Control Systems (Git and collaborative development workflows)
- ReactJS and TypeScript (Experience developing modern web applications and user interfaces)
- Generative AI & AI-Powered Applications (Exposure to integrating AI capabilities into applications)
- AI Fundamentals (Awareness of LLMs, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI Agents)
Good to Have Skills
- Agile Methodologies (Familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, or other Agile development practices)
- Kotlin (Exposure to Kotlin and familiarity with functional programming concepts)
- Event-Driven Architecture (Understanding of asynchronous processing and event-driven design patterns)
- Monitoring & Observability (Exposure to Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar tools)
- Kubernetes (Basic understanding of container orchestration concepts)
Know More About Us here:
- Life at Target: https://india.target.com/
- Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/
How we rate this
Engineer - Target India at Target rates 32 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
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