Lead Engineer - Target India
Target · Tower 02, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Racenahali & Nagawara Villages. Outer Ring Rd, Bangalore 540065
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Target is hiring a Lead Engineer - Target India in Tower 02.
Responsibilities
- Technology Evaluation & Innovation
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to architectural decision-making, considering alignment with Target’s technical ecosystem, long-term maintainability, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
- Lead research initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts to validate new tools, frameworks, and platforms before adoption.
- Architecture & Engineering Excellence
- Design and own scalable, secure, high-performance architectures.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices in complex or ambiguous environments.
- Lead service design, lifecycle management, and overall technical governance of team-owned platforms.
- Ensure code quality, infrastructure standards, and long-term sustainability of services.
- Hands-On Development & Delivery
- Contribute directly to development efforts, particularly on complex and high-impact components.
- Ensure solutions are production-ready, deployable, resilient, and scalable.
- Drive implementation quality through strong testing, automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Enterprise Impact & Thought Leadership
- Provide technical thought leadership to promote reusable components and consistent architectural patterns.
- Participate in planning and designing services with enterprise-wide impact.
- Guide the team in resolving routine and moderately complex technical challenges, escalating risks when necessary.
Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Java, including backend systems and automation workflows
- Strong experience in Microservices Architecture and distributed systems
- Expertise with Spring Boot or Micronaut, including reactive programming models
- Experience with Messaging Systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Proficiency with Databases, including NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar)
- Strong background in Unit & Integration Testing (JUnit, Spock, TestContainers)
- Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Expertise in Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of Monitoring & Observability tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)
- Solid grasp of Event-Driven Architecture patterns in distributed environments
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin
- Experience with Legacy System Modernization and refactoring initiatives
- Knowledge of Security Best Practices, including OWASP standards and secure coding principles
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
About Target
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India ope