Lead Engineer

About us:

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. Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs.  You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both).  You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”.   Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.  Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

As a Lead Engineer, you are a vital specialist in the engineering team building and designing our product. You work closely with principal engineer, product manager and stakeholders to design and develop the entire new product line. You drive architectural concepts into concrete designs and influence their implementation, applying software engineering patterns to create robust, scalable systems. You will evaluate emerging technologies, lead research and proof-of-concept initiatives, and manage product lifecycles and financial forecasting. Your responsibilities include conducting code and design reviews, testing, and debugging, while ensuring compliance with architectural best practices.

Expectations and responsibilities 

·      4 year degree or equivalent experience 

·      7 – 11 years of software development experience with very good hands-on with JAVA, SQL/NoSQL (Postgres/Mongo) DB, Kafka 

·      Experience with Spring Boot Framework, Gradle, JUnit or other unit & integration testing framework 

·      Can work through ambiguous and evolving requirements in a challenging and fast paced releases 

·      Lead the team of 5-6 engineers and build strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities 

·      Lead the technical decisions along with various stakeholders and own design and implementation of the product.  

·      Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and adaptive learning 

·      Good understanding of cloud infra and security.  

·      Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance 

·      Drives  competencies among the team to align to various architectural patterns such as Microservices, Event Driven architecture etc 

·      Encourages a culture of leveraging the latest and the greatest programming constructs from advanced releases such as Java 21, Elastic Search 8.x, Postgres 15 etc. 

·      Cultivates and curates an engineering culture of leveraging standard design pattern templates wherever possible. 

·      Expertise in applying the standard design patterns templates to application development. 

·      Good to have UI development experience and understanding using React 

·      Good to have - good understanding and experimented on latest GenAI technologies with respect to Prompt Engineering, Models, OpenAI APIs, Tools and LLM frameworks.