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Sr. Engineer - Target India
Job Id: R0000476633
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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.
Responsibilities:
- Design & Development: Architect and implement high-performance, low-latency solutions.
- 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.
- Nice-to-Have Skills:Exposure to NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.), Analytical stores (BigQuerry, etc), Apache Beam.
- Experience with advanced CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Drone, etc.).
Know More About Us here:
- Life at Target: https://india.target.com/
- Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/
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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.
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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.
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