Lead Engineer - Target India

Roundel; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in Bengaluru seeks a Lead Engineer to provide technical leadership and architectural direction while remaining hands-on. You will shape engineering standards, drive modernization, and enable AI-powered capabilities across the platform.

You will design secure, high-performance architectures, evolve engineering practices, and govern team-owned platforms. Expect collaboration across complex systems and a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Advanced Java backend development with automation workflows.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for scalable, production-grade systems.
• Own service design, lifecycle management and governance for platforms.
• Hands-on development on complex components and ensure production readiness.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and reliability across services.
• Lead AI/LLM integration and intelligent system initiatives.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Spring Boot

AI/LLM

Messaging

Databases

CI/CD

Testing

Cloud

Kubernetes

Observability

Event-Driven

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana/ELK/Prometheus

Job description

## Lead Engineer - Target IndiaApplylocations: Tower 02, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Racenahali & Nagawara Villages. Outer Ring Rd, Bangalore 540065time type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R0000437816**Lead Engineer – Role & Responsibilities** As a Lead Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction while remaining hands-on in building scalable, resilient, and production-grade systems. You will play a critical role in shaping engineering standards, driving modernization, and enabling intelligent, AI-powered capabilities across the platform. **Key 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.* **Observability & Reliability Engineering*** + Champion a culture of observability and operational excellence. + Ensure monitoring, logging, and metrics are embedded into services. + Leverage operational data to continuously improve system stability, performance, and reliability. + Align monitoring strategies with organizational observability principles.* **AI & Intelligent Systems Integration*** + Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI capabilities into core applications. + Design and implement safeguards to mitigate hallucinations and improve AI reliability. + Build and scale agentic frameworks and AI-driven automation solutions to enhance business processes.* **Data Governance & Platform Optimization*** + Influence and evolve data standards, policies, and governance practices. + Configure, optimize, and monitor data management platforms with minimal oversight. + Identify performance and efficiency improvements across data systems.**Required Skills & Expertise*** 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* Hands-on experience with **AI/LLM integration** and GenAI-enabled applications* 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 KanbanLevel: 6###### About UsTarget is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps. In the meantime, follow us at A Bullseye View for the latest news.**Our Benefits**We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.