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Lead Engineer
Job Id: R0000375517
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 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.
As a Lead Engineer, you are a vital specialist in the engineering team building and designing our product. You work closely with principal engineer, product manager and stakeholders to design and develop the entire new product line. You drive architectural concepts into concrete designs and influence their implementation, applying software engineering patterns to create robust, scalable systems. You will evaluate emerging technologies, lead research and proof-of-concept initiatives, and manage product lifecycles and financial forecasting. Your responsibilities include conducting code and design reviews, testing, and debugging, while ensuring compliance with architectural best practices.
Expectations and responsibilities
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 7 – 11 years of software development experience with very good hands-on with JAVA, SQL/NoSQL (Postgres/Mongo) DB, Kafka
- Experience with Spring Boot Framework, Gradle, JUnit or other unit & integration testing framework
- Can work through ambiguous and evolving requirements in a challenging and fast paced releases
- Lead the team of 5-6 engineers and build strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
- Lead the technical decisions along with various stakeholders and own design and implementation of the product.
- Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and adaptive learning
- Good understanding of cloud infra and security.
- Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
- Drives competencies among the team to align to various architectural patterns such as Microservices, Event Driven architecture etc
- Encourages a culture of leveraging the latest and the greatest programming constructs from advanced releases such as Java 21, Elastic Search 8.x, Postgres 15 etc.
- Cultivates and curates an engineering culture of leveraging standard design pattern templates wherever possible.
- Expertise in applying the standard design patterns templates to application development.
- Good to have UI development experience and understanding using React
- Good to have - good understanding and experimented on latest GenAI technologies with respect to Prompt Engineering, Models, OpenAI APIs, Tools and LLM frameworks.
Competitive benefits
We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.
Health and well-being
Target in India (TII) prioritizes our people by offering healthcare support, fitness programs, teleheath benefits (i.e., screenings and consultations) and 24/7 confidential mental well-being telecounseling support.
Financial well-being
Your financial well-being is bright with TII's comprehensive flexible insurance program, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.
Paid time off
TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, bereavement and parental leaves that offer support in all stages of life.
Competitive pay
TII knows our people are everything and proudly provides equitable and competitive pay.
Other benefits
From digitalized cafeteria solutions to transportation services to broadband reimbursement, enjoy special everyday perks.
Creating a culture of joy
We bring out the best in each other every day.
Inclusivity
We value diverse voices and approaches. We act with authenticity and respect. We create equitable experiences for all.
Connection
We build trusted relationships. We collaborate across business functions. We recognize and celebrate progress.
Drive
We do what is right for Target, our team and guests. We deliver results that matter. We continually learn by valuing progress over perfection.
Grow with Target
We are fully invested in your personal and professional growth because our people are our power.
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