Sr Engineer- Backend
Role Overview
Target's Product Engineering teams build technology that supports efficient, secure, and reliable retail operations.
The Senior Backend Engineer designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality for product lines, platforms, or infrastructure.
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Position overview
Target's Product Engineering teams build technology that supports efficient, secure, and reliable retail operations.
The Senior Backend Engineer designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality for product lines, platforms, or infrastructure.
Core requirements
- At least 4 years of software design and development experience, including at least 3 years building scalable backend applications with Java.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Micronaut is required.
- Experience with distributed systems, microservice architecture, and third-party or open-source frameworks is required.
- Exposure to non-relational databases such as MongoDB is required.
- A four-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
Role responsibilities
- Design, develop, and approve end-to-end product, platform, or infrastructure functionality.
- Optimize systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
- Coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
- Deliver secure, scalable, repeatable, high-throughput, and low-latency solutions.
- Apply data standards, policies, and procedures while maintaining technical expertise.
Additional capabilities
- Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of data structures and algorithms are required.
- Good-to-have exposure includes data pipelines, ML Ops, Spark, and Python.
- The role requires ongoing learning through formal training and self-directed education.
About Target in India
Target in India operates as an integrated part of Target's global team in Bengaluru and supports the company's global strategy and operations.
Target's global technology organization includes engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches, and product managers using agile practices and open-source software.
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