Sr Engineer

Target · Retail & E-commerce

Bangalore,India
On-site
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About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 4000,000 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.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in distributed systems and Java-based applications to join our team.

In this role, you will design, build, and operate scalable backend services, contribute to architecture decisions, and own services end-to-end in production. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver reliable, high-performance systems.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Responsibilities:

Design and build high-quality, scalable, and resilient backend services using Java and Spring Boot

Lead system design and architecture discussions, making informed trade-offs across performance, scalability, and reliability

Own services end-to-end in production, ensuring availability, latency, and SLA adherence

Drive best practices for distributed systems design, fault tolerance, and observability

Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and set a high bar for engineering quality

Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers, improving overall team capability

Troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root cause analysis, and implement durable fixes

Collaborate cross-functionally with product, UX, and platform teams to deliver solutions end-to-end

Partner with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines and optimize Kubernetes-based deployments

Contribute to architecture governance, documenting designs, trade-offs, and operational runbooks

Influence technical direction by evaluating tools, technologies, and system improvements

Contribute to building next-generation platform capabilities leveraging agent-based and AI-driven orchestration systems

About You:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

4+ years of professional software development experience

Strong proficiency in Java and deep experience with Spring Boot

Proven experience building microservices and RESTful APIs

Strong understanding of distributed systems principles: scalability, reliability, consistency, and fault tolerance

Hands-on experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Experience with cloud-native environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

Strong database fundamentals across relational (MySQL/Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Redis) systems

Experience with modern engineering practices: Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability tools

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to drive solutions in ambiguous environments

Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions

Proven track record of delivering reliable, scalable systems in production

Nice to have

Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming systems

Exposure to high-scale, low-latency systems

Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)

Experience with performance tuning and system optimization

Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT)

Familiarity with agentic platforms and AI-driven application architectures, including concepts like orchestration of autonomous agents, tool usage, and workflow-based systems

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