Sr Engineering Manager
Apply Now Location: Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 560045; job id: R0000369757job family: Technology Engineering Management
schedule: Full time
About Us: Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
About Team: Target's Marketing Engineering Products team creates solutions for some of the most complicated omnichannel use-cases the retail sector has to offer. We create highly scalable, deeply multifaceted and cutting-edge distributed product platforms and applciations that help Target’s business offer the best-in-class guest experience on all channels like App, Website and Stores.
Whether it is developing applications in Roundel, which creates personalized ad campaigns for top brands to capture our guests’ attention across the internet, to establishing Target Circle, which is the loyalty program with the strategic intent of deepening relationships with every guest, to building and scaling centralization of guest data & algorithms across the enterprise with capabilities like capture and standardize guest data sources, guest identifiers, relationships and confidence levels, with the right privacy choices and sharing, to manage and deliver marketing 2D and 3D content which inspire guests to make a confident purchase, to drive clear and consistent store sign messaging to improve offer comprehension, to deliver personalized messages across multiple channels for best guest experience and loyalty… marketing engineering products team solves real life challenges at a scale and complexity that is only available at Target and continues to be a big part of Target’s growth.
The engineering platforms are built using kafka based event driven architecture which allows high-scale to process huge data volumes in integrated applications as well as disruptor patterns which help high performance inter-thread messaging. SQL and NoSQL databases are used based on the business use-cases along with RocksDB, embeddable persistent key-value stores which is used as back-end for very high-volume APIs or as an ephemeral datastore while processing billions of kafka messages a day!
About You: The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge robotics solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the SEM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software.
Requirements
- 4-year degree
- Proven experience of 12 years in software engineering, with a focus on full-stack development
- Demonstrated experience of 4 years in a leadership or management role, leading engineering teams to deliver complex software projects/products
- Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
- Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
- Strong technical knowledge in programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Kotlin, React, SpringBoot
- Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
- Knowledge of associated technologies like Micronaut, Microfrontends is a plus.
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
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