Engineer - Java

Posted:
8/23/2024, 4:53:34 AM

Location(s):
Karnataka, India ⋅ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Job Description

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. 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 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.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win

Pyramid 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.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving 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.

Team Overview:

At Target, we are gearing up for exponential growth and continuously expanding our product assortment by welcoming new sellers to Target's thriving marketplace. To support this expansion, we are revamping our systems to meet increasing demands and enhance our seller's experience.We are looking for talented individuals to work with cutting-edge technologies and develop an extensible architecture that will transform our seller journey. This includes improving processes from seller acquisition and onboarding to product listing, logistics, insights, and performance management.If you are passionate about innovative technology and are eager to contribute to a dynamic and rapidly growing platform, we would love to hear from you. Join us in creating a seamless and efficient marketplace for our sellers!

Role Overview:

  • Able to implement new features/fixes within the current framework with little or no direction. Able to troubleshoot problems and devise solutions for root cause.

  • Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.

  • Has advanced skills around technology for their area. Examples may include: computing topics, threading models, performance considerations, caching, database indexing, operating system internals, networking, infrastructure systems and operations.

  • Researches the best design and new technologies for given problem. Evaluates technologies and documents decision making.

  • Understands how the solution is deployed, examples may include: VMs, containers, clustering, load balancing, DNS, networking, and scalability.

  • Recommends changes to internal processes and procedures when deficiencies are observed.

  • Articulates the value of a technology.

  • Approaches all engineering work with a security lens and actively looks for security vulnerabilities within code/infrastructure architecture when providing peer reviews.

  • Contributes to open source where applicable.

  • Helps tune and change the observability on their team accordingly. Is aware of the operational data for their team’s domain and uses it as a basis for suggesting stability and performance improvements.



About you:

  • Experience: 1.5 years - 4 years

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience

  • Excellent communication skills with both business partners and other engineering teams

  • Familiar with Agile principles and possess a team attitude

  • Strong problem solving and debugging skills

  • Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements

  • Experience engineering applications for the JVM. Java or Kotlin experience is definitely needed.

  • Experience in micro services, Spring Boot, and event driven architecture

  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines

  • Exposure to building high-performance scalable APIs is a plus.

  • Knowledge of NoSQL technologies Cassandra, Elastic search, MongoDB is a plus

  • Good at writing unit and functional tests and test-driven development

Target

Website: https://www.target.com/

Headquarter Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1962

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Communities ⋅ E-Commerce ⋅ Retail ⋅ Shopping