Lead Engineer - Backend

Target Target · Retail · Bangalore, India

Lead Engineer - Backend role at Target, focusing on designing scalable architecture, hands-on development, and ensuring production readiness for services. The role involves planning and delivering team work, mentoring, and fostering a culture of observability and security. It also requires articulating technical strategy and guiding teams through complex problems, with an emphasis on utilizing coding companion tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing scalable architecture with the best choice of tech, responsible for all the services/functionalities that the team develops while ensuring quality of the team's code and/or infrastructure standards.
  2. Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
  3. Planning and delivering of work in the team in addition to their own work. Promotes a learning culture through mentoring and coaching.
  4. Ensures product observability is in place for reliability. Fosters a culture of observability across teams and helps use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Is aware of the operational data for their team’s domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
  5. Responsible for ensuring the security of the product and fostering a security first mindset across teams. Highly skilled with applying and implementing security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, creating logic to detect malicious behavior, and analyzing network or host artifacts.

Skills

Required

  • Software Architecture
  • Backend Development
  • Scalability
  • Resilience
  • Production Readiness
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Observability
  • Monitoring
  • Security Concepts
  • Vulnerability Identification
  • Malicious Behavior Detection
  • Technical Strategy Articulation
  • Problem Solving
  • Agile Practices

Nice to have

  • GitHub Copilot
  • ChatGPT

What the JD emphasized

  • scalable architecture
  • observability
  • security