Sr. Engineer - Target India

Role overview

Sr. Engineer - Target India at Target

Design & Development: Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to refine requirements, design solutions, and perform code reviews.
• Scalability & Reliability: Ensure microservices are fault-tolerant and can handle high traffic.
• Observability & Monitoring: Set up metrics, tracing, and logs to maintain operational health.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and best practices to junior team members.
• Continuous Learning: Keep up-to-date with the latest trends in distributed systems and backend technologies.
• About you:
• 5+ years in software design & development; at least 4 years building scalable backend apps in Java or Kotlin.
• Microservices & Distributed Systems: Proven track record designing and implementing microservices, working with event-driven systems.
• Databases: Strong knowledge of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non relational databases.
• Messaging: Hands-on experience with Kafka for data streaming and messaging.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Observability: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Grafana, ELK, Micrometer, OpenTelemetry).
• Performance Optimization: Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize system capacity, throughput, and latency.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Skills:Exposure to NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.), Analytical stores (BigQuerry, etc), Apache Beam.
• Experience with advanced CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Drone, etc.).

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• 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 a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product.
• You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture.
• You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation.
• You show expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems.
• You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product.
• You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation.
• You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues.
• You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
• Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
• As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you… Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.
• Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership.
• Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
• Manage total product, financials and forecasting.
• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.
• Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions.
• Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met.
• Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues.
• Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.