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Lead Engineer

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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

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