# Lead Engineer

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Bangalore, Bangalore 540065
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Product Engineering team at Target's Bengaluru office. As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for designing scalable architecture, hands-on development, planning and delivering work, promoting a learning culture, ensuring product observability, security, and articulating technical strategy.

Responsibilities:

- Design scalable architecture with the best choice of tech

- Hands-on development, often taking on complicated tasks

- Plan and deliver work, promote learning culture

- Ensure product observability, security, and reliability

- Articulate technical strategy and impact to business

- Provide guidance and cultivate solutions for complex problems

- Encourage team to adopt growth mindset

- Guide team in anticipation of future use cases

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in software design and development

- 5+ years focused on building scalable backend applications

- Expertise in JVM-based technologies, specifically Java and Kotlin

- Experience with microservices architecture, messaging systems, databases, CI/CD, unit and integration testing, cloud services, containerization, and monitoring & observability

Nice to Have:

- Functional programming

- GraphQL

- Legacy system modernization

- Security best practices

- Agile methodologies

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Microservices Architecture
- Spring Boot
- Micronaut
- Messaging Systems
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Databases
- Cassandra
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Unit and Integration Testing
- Spock
- JUnit
- TestContainers
- Selenium
- Cloud Services
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Containerization and Orchestration
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Monitoring & Observability
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Prometheus
- Event-Driven Architecture

### Nice to have
- Functional Programming
- GraphQL
- Legacy System Modernization
- Security Best Practices
- Agile Methodologies

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