Target Hiring for Sr Engineer at Bengaluru, India Full Time

Description:

SENIOR ENGINEER (40037 or 60245)

Classification: Exempt

Date: January 2018

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.

As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

We are looking to hire Search Engineers with prior experience working on Search related technology like search engines and search relevancy tuning. Experience on leveraging data science for search relevancy is added advantage.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 5-7 years of software development experience

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features

• Code using primarily Kotlin, Micronaut.

• Experience with Search Engines like SOLR and Elasticsearch

• Experience in evaluating search infrastructure requirements and design/deploy solutions for problems such as high availability, search clusters, elastic load distribution.

• Experience on streaming systems like Kafka. Experience on Kafka Streams is added advantage.

• Experience on query understanding and content understanding is added advantage.

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