Senior Engineer - Apply For CircleCard

The pay range is $98000.00 - $176000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and addition to your pay Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs which may include medical vision dental life insurance and more to help you and your family take care of your whole benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at Engineer Apply For CircleCard

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision tolife through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here .

As a Senior Engineer you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight into the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise 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.

About this Team : for Circle Card (AFCC) team is responsible for creating a seamless and efficient Circle Card application experience for our guests. Our primary goal is to deliver an instant A pprove or D ecline decision while increasing the number of successful Circle Card applications.

Beyond application processing we also support in-store balance paydowns for Guest Circle Cards and maintain internal tracking of key Circle Card metrics.

What sets our team apart is our deep expertise and ownership of core backend systems powering the Circle Card journey along with frontend experience in store registry. This breadth allows us to maintain a holistic view and innovate effectively across the guest experience.

Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer youll take the lead as you .

Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making accounting for several factors such as viability within Targets technical environment maintainability and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies . Manage total product financials and forecasting. Lead the design lifecycle management and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review design review testing and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction automation and implementation activities ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met. Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition processing storage and operational use.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

What Youll Do :

AI Engineering :

• Leverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle including solution design implementation testing debugging documentation and code reviews .

• Collaborate effectively with AI coding assistants and enterprise AI platforms to improve engineering productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality security architecture and maintainability .

• Apply sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated code and technical recommendations through testing peer reviews and established software engineering practices .

• Design and build production AI-powered applications using Target-approved AI platforms frameworks and Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve engineering and business problems .

• Design build and deploy production-grade autonomous and agentic AI systems capable of reasoning planning tool orchestration memory management and multi-step workflow execution .

• Develop domain-specific AI agents and multi-agent workflows using modern orchestration frameworks to automate engineering processes and enhance retail and enterprise experiences .

• Design and implement prompt engineering and Context Engineering strategies to improve application quality reliability and relevance .

• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveraging enterprise knowledge sources vector search technologies and semantic retrieval .

• Optimize AI applications for response quality latency throughput token utilization and inference cost .

• Implement AI evaluation frameworks and apply responsible AI security privacy governance and observability best practices .

• Build reusable AI components frameworks libraries workflows and engineering accelerators that improve developer productivity .

• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities lead proof-of-concept initiatives and recommend adoption strategies that deliver measurable business value .

• Partner across engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into products platforms and software development workflows .

Services Engineering:

• Design develop and maintain highly scalable AI-ready services usingKotlin Java and Micronaut .

• Build secure high-performance RESTful APIs and event-driven services supporting high-volume retail and financial workloads .

• Design distributed systems using Kafka asynchronous messaging distributed caching and cloud-native architecture patterns .

• Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases including data modeling indexing query optimization and transactional integrity .

• Build resilient highly available services with strong fault tolerance scalability and operational excellence .

• Lead technical design discussions architecture reviews code reviews and implementation planning .

• Improve platform observability using OpenTelemetry distributed tracing metrics logging and production monitoring .

• Continuously improve application performance scalability resiliency observability and operational health .

• Partner closely with Product Management UX Architecture Infrastructure Data and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions .

About You

Required Qualifications :

• 4 years of degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and backend systems.

AI Engineering:

• Hands-on experience designing and deploying production AI applications AI-powered tools or agentic systems using modern Large Language Models (LLMs) .

• Experience building autonomous or multi-agent workflows using technologies such asModel Context Protocol (MCP) LangGraph LangChain CrewAI Google ADKSemantic Kernel or equivalent orchestration frameworks .

• Strong understanding of AI application architecture includingPrompt Engineering Context Engineering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tool calling memory management orchestration patterns and AI evaluation .

• Experience optimizing AI applications for quality latency token efficiency and inference cost while implementing responsible AI governance and observability practices .

• Proficiency inPythonfor AI application development automation or AI tooling .

Services Engineering:

• Expert-level proficiency inKotlinandJava with experience building microservices usingMicronautand/orSpring Boot .

• Strong experience designing distributed systems RESTful APIs Kafka-based event-driven architectures PostgreSQL Redis Docker Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines .

• Experience building highly available resilient secure and observable production services .

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Strong communication collaboration and technical leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers leading design discussions and driving engineering best practices .

• Passion for applying emerging AI technologies to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Extra points if you have:

• Worked on with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal

• Experience creating reusable AI workflows or skills to enable efficient repeatable engineering tasks

• Worked on Target Register platform

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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