Target Tech Overview: Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target's investments in technology and innovation. We're the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.
Our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers strive to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning
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About Pyramid: Merchandising is a Portfolio within Target – Product Engineering provide reliable data that is core to our enterprise retail operations, including foundational data and aggregation services at scale for retail and commerce platforms. We deal with data around Pricing, Promotions, Item, Supplier, Owned Brand, Merch Planning, Space Presentation & Transitions(SPT) & Intelligence Automatio
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As a Senior Engineer you would be responsible
- forDesigning scalable architecture with the best choice of tech, responsible for all the services/functionalities that the team develops while ensuring quality of the team's code and/or infrastructure standar
- ds.Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilie
- nt.Planning and delivering of work in the team in addition to their own work. Promotes a learning culture through mentoring and coachi
- ng.Ensures product observability is in place for reliability. Fosters a culture of observability across teams and helps use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Is aware of the operational data for their team's domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvemen
- ts.Responsible for ensuring the security of the product and fostering a security first mindset across teams. Highly skilled with applying and implementing security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, creating logic to detect malicious behavior, and analyzing network or host artifac
- ts.Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and GenAI-powered features into core applicatio
- ns.Build robust systems that mitigate hallucinations and improve AI reliabili
- ty.Experience building agentic frameworks and AI-driven automation for process enhancem
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Position Overview: To succeed in this role, you'll bring over 4-7 years of experience in software design and development, with focus on building scalable backend applications. Your expertise will lie in JVM-based technologies, specifically Java and Kotlin, along with a deep understanding of building robust, scalable syst
ems.
Must Have Sk
- ills:Java & Python (Advanced proficiency in backend, AI, and automation workflows using Java and Py
- thon)Microservices Architecture (Designing, developing, and managing scalable microserv
- ices)Spring Boot or Micronaut (Experience with JVM-based frameworks, including reactive program
- ming)AI / LLM Integration (Integrating Large Language Models and GenAI features into core applicat
- ions)AI Reliability & Automation (Building agentic frameworks, reducing hallucinations, and improving process automation using OpenAI APIs and
- SDKs)Messaging Systems (Kafka, Rabb
- itMQ)Databases (Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, and SQL-based databases like Postgr
- eSQL)CI/CD (Building and managing pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar t
- ools)Unit and Integration Testing (Spock, JUnit, TestContainers for Java; PyTest, Unittest for Py
- thon)Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, A
- zure)Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubern
- etes)Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, ELK Stack, Promet
- heus)Event-Driven Architecture (Knowledge of event-driven patterns in distributed sys
tems)
Good to Have S
- kills:Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in K
- otlin)GraphQL (Experience designing and integrating GraphQL
- APIs)Legacy System Modernization (Experience refactoring and modernizing older sy
- stems)Security Best Practices (OWASP, vulnerability scanning, secure coding princ
- iples)Agile Methodologies (Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile proc
esses)
