Lead Engineer - Search Team - Target India

Role overview

Lead Engineer - Search Team - Target India at Target

of this job are described within this job description.

Responsibilities

• About you:
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks, with core expertise in JVM-based languages (Kotlin, Java) and distributed streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka Streams) at scale.
• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure, serving as technical anchor for high-traffic search platform systems
• Ensures data consistency and correctness across distributed, event-driven pipelines, with strategies for incremental processing and minimal-downtime system updates
• Designs and optimizes distributed serving architectures that aggregate results across multiple systems within strict latency constraints, with resilience to partial system degradation
• Hands-on experience managing or resolving P0 (Priority-0) production incidents in large-scale systems
• Communicates and coordinates effectively with project teams, partners, and stakeholders, while maintaining deep technical expertise and staying current with evolving technologies Nice to Have
• Strong foundation in information retrieval and search engine internals, including modern retrieval techniques such as hybrid lexical and semantic (vector-based) search (big plus)
• Experience with Redis and search databases such as Solr or Elasticsearch (big plus)

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. ​
• Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life.
• Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play.
• We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team.
• At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work.
• It’s how we care, grow, and win together Target as a tech company?
• Absolutely.
• We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation.
• We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores.
• Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve.
• Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative.
• We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
• As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product.
• You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs.
• You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both).
• You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”.
• Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.
• Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
• Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
• As a Lead 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 participates 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.
• Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level.
• In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.
• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
• Participate in planning services that have enterprise impact.
• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
• Gather information, data, and input from a wide variety of sources; identify additional resources when appropriate, engage with appropriate stakeholders, and conduct in-depth analysis of information.
• Develop plans and schedules, estimate resource requirements, and define milestones and deliverables.
• Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles.
• Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met.
• Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems.
• Serve as an expert resource in disaster recovery and disaster recovery planning.
• Stay current with Target’s technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment.
• Develop fully attributed data models, including logical, physical, and canonical.
• Influence data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Install, configure, and/or tune data management solutions with minimal guidance.
• Monitor data management solution(s) and identify optimization opportunities.