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Lead Engineer – Target India
Job Id: R0000430076
About the team
Target’s Enterprise Token Vault Exchange (TVX) platform helps protect sensitive payment and identity data by enabling secure tokenization, token storage, and controlled exchange of tokens across enterprise services. We build high-throughput, resilient services with strong security controls and compliance standards to support critical business workflows.
What you’ll do
Lead the design and development of Java/Spring Boot microservices that enable tokenization, secure storage, and exchange of payment and PII data across the enterprise.
Target’s Enterprise Token Vault Exchange (TVX) platform helps protect sensitive payment and identity data by enabling secure tokenization, token storage, and controlled exchange of tokens across enterprise services. We build high-throughput, resilient services with strong security controls and compliance standards to support critical business workflows.
What you’ll do
Lead the design and development of Java/Spring Boot microservices that enable tokenization, secure storage, and exchange of payment and PII data across the enterprise.
- Build and enforce secure-by-default patterns using Spring Security (authN/authZ, service-to-service security, API security).
- Collaborate with architects, security, and product to translate platform requirements into scalable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence: code quality, automation, observability, reliability, and performance tuning.
- Partner with platform and SRE teams to improve deployment practices and operational readiness.
- Participate in technical mentorship, design reviews, and setting engineering standards for the team.
Required qualifications
Strong hands-on experience building backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
Proven experience implementing security controls using Spring Security.
Experience designing and operating production services (scalability, resiliency, monitoring, incident response).
- Working knowledge of SQL and ability to write basic queries for troubleshooting and analysis.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: OOP, data structures, REST APIs, testing strategy, clean code, and debugging.
Preferred qualifications
- General understanding of certificates / PKI concepts (TLS, keystores/truststores, certificate rotation).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Jenkins (and/or Vela).
- Strong Linux expertise, preferably Ubuntu (process/network debugging, logs, performance basics).
- Familiarity with PCI compliance environments and secure engineering practices.
- Experience with Python for automation, tooling, or scripting.
- Experience with configuration/orchestration tooling such as Ansible / Chef and “config orchestration pipelines”.
What success looks like
- Secure, reliable services shipped with strong test coverage and operational maturity.
- Reduced operational toil through automation and improved CI/CD practices.
- Clear technical direction, mentorship, and consistent delivery across the team.
- Strong partnership with security and compliance stakeholders in a regulated environment.
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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, National Pension System, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.
Paid time off
TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, casual, 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.
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