Lead Engineer - Target India

About Us:  

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win

Pyramid 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.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving 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.

Team Overview:

At Target, we are gearing up for exponential growth and continuously expanding our product assortment by welcoming new sellers to Target's thriving marketplace. To support this expansion, we are revamping our systems to meet increasing demands and enhance our seller's experience.We are looking for talented individuals to work with cutting-edge technologies and develop an extensible architecture that will transform our seller journey. This includes improving processes from seller acquisition and onboarding to product listing, logistics, insights, and performance management.If you are passionate about innovative technology and are eager to contribute to a dynamic and rapidly growing platform, we would love to hear from you. Join us in creating a seamless and efficient marketplace for our sellers!

Role Overview:

• 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.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation

• Experience in Java OR Kotlin, Kotlin functional programming, Micronaut(Reactive), Kafka, NoSQLs - Cassandra, Mongo, Elastic, SQLs - Postgres, Test containers, Spock, Groovy, ELK, Grafana, Jira, GIT, CI/CD

• Strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features

• Broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source). Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure

• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health

• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management

• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems