# Senior Engineer – Apply For CircleCard

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $98,000.00 - $176,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Apply for Circle Card (AFCC) team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable AI-ready services using Kotlin, Java, and Micronaut. They will also leverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable AI-ready services using Kotlin, Java, and Micronaut

- Build secure, high-performance RESTful APIs and event-driven services supporting high-volume retail and financial workloads

- Design distributed systems using Kafka, asynchronous messaging, distributed caching, and cloud-native architecture patterns

- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity

- Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and implementation planning

- Improve platform observability using OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and production monitoring

- Continuously improve application performance, scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational health

- Partner closely with Product Management, UX, Architecture, Infrastructure, Data, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions

AI Engineering:

- Leverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle

- Collaborate effectively with AI coding assistants and enterprise AI platforms to improve engineering productivity

- Apply sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated code and technical recommendations

- Design and build production AI-powered applications using Target-approved AI platforms, frameworks, and Large Language Models (LLMs)

- Design, build, and deploy production-grade autonomous and agentic AI systems

- Develop domain-specific AI agents and multi-agent workflows using modern orchestration frameworks

- Design and implement prompt engineering and Context Engineering strategies

- Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveraging enterprise knowledge sources

- Optimize AI applications for response quality, latency, throughput, token utilization, and inference cost

- Implement AI evaluation frameworks and apply responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, and observability best practices

Requirements:

- 4 years of degree or equivalent practical experience

- 5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and backend systems

- Hands-on experience designing and deploying production AI applications

- Experience building autonomous or multi-agent workflows using technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Google ADK, Semantic Kernel

- Strong understanding of AI application architecture

- Proficiency in Python for AI application development

- Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin and Java

- Strong experience designing distributed systems, RESTful APIs, Kafka-based event-driven architectures, PostgreSQL

- Experience building highly available, resilient, secure, and observable production services

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short term disability

- Long term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- Micronaut
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- OpenTelemetry

### Nice to have
- Temporal
- workflow orchestration platforms
- Target Register platform

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