Sr Engineer- Search Team

About us:  

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Pyramid Overview:

Target Tech and Data Sciences teams are 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 You:

• 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience

• Strong fundamentals in Probability, Statistics, Linear Algebra and ML Engineering

• Strong analytical thinking skills with an ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required

• Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, Pyspark, SQL, Hadoop/Hive

• Able to produce reasonable documents/narrative suggesting actionable insights

• Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs and narratives

• Self-driven and results oriented

• Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/time zones

 Position Overview:

As a Senior Engineer on the Search Team, 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 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 leverage data science in solving complex business problems. You make decisions based on data. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

About You:

We are looking to hire Engineers with prior experience on Search, MLOps and Data Engineering :

• Code using primarily in Kotlin, Micronaut.

• Experience with Search Engines like SOLR and Elastic Search

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

• Experience in MLOps

• Experience in Data Engineering

Know More About Us Here:

Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits