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These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In 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 selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.\nSenior Engineer -ApplyForCircleCard\nAbout us:\nWorking at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.\nAs a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insightintothe application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You showexpertisein applying theappropriate softwareengineering 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 ownbut choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show goodproblem-solvingskills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. Youleverageyourexpertiseineliminatingrepeat occurrences.\nAbout thisTeam: Applyfor Circle Card (AFCC) teamis responsible forcreating a seamless and efficient Circle Card application experience for our guests. Our primary goal is to deliver an instantApproveorDecline decision while increasing the number of successful Circle Card applications.\nBeyond application processing, we also support in-store balance paydowns for Guest Circle Cards andmaintaininternal tracking of key Circle Card metrics.\nWhat sets our team apart is our deepexpertiseand ownership of core backend systems powering the Circle Card journey, along with frontend experience in store registry. This breadth allows us tomaintaina holistic view and innovate effectively across the guest experience.\nUse your skills,experienceand talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer,you’lltake the lead as you.\nUse your technology acumen to apply andmaintainknowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluatenew technologiesandparticipatein decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities fornew technologies. Manage total product,financialsand 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 withunderstanding ofprocess 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.\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. \nWhat You'll Do:\nAI Engineering:\nLeverage AI-assisted software development tools throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews.\n\nCollaborate effectively with AI coding assistants and enterprise AI platforms to improve engineering productivity while maintaininghigh standardsfor code quality, security, architecture, and maintainability.\n\nApply sound engineering judgment to validateAI-generated code and technical recommendations through testing, peer reviews, and established software engineering practices.\n\nDesign and build productionAI-powered applications using Target-approved AI platforms, frameworks, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve engineering and business problems.\n\nDesign, build, and deploy production-grade autonomous and agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool orchestration, memory management, and multi-step workflow execution.\n\nDevelop domain-specific AI agents and multi-agent workflows using modern orchestration frameworks to automate engineering processes and enhance retail and enterprise experiences.\n\nDesign and implement prompt engineering and Context Engineering strategies to improve application quality, reliability, and relevance.\n\nBuild Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions leveragingenterprise knowledge sources, vector search technologies, and semantic retrieval.\n\nOptimizeAI applications for response quality, latency, throughput, token utilization, and inference cost.\n\nImplement AI evaluation frameworks and apply responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, and observability best practices.\n\nBuild reusable AI components, frameworks, libraries, workflows, and engineering accelerators that improve developer productivity.\n\nEvaluate emerging AI capabilities, lead proof-of-concept initiatives, and recommend adoption strategies that deliver measurable business value.\n\nPartner across engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into products, platforms, and software development workflows.\n\nServices Engineering:\nDesign, develop, and maintainhighly scalableAI-ready services using Kotlin, Java, and Micronaut.\n\nBuild secure, high-performanceRESTful APIs and event-driven services supporting high-volume retail and financial workloads.\n\nDesign distributed systems using Kafka, asynchronous messaging, distributed caching, and cloud-native architecture patterns.\n\nDesign and optimizePostgreSQL databases, including data modeling, indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity.\n\nBuild resilient, highly availableservices with strong fault tolerance, scalability, and operational excellence.\n\nLead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and implementation planning.\n\nImprove platform observability using OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and production monitoring.\n\nContinuously improve application performance, scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational health.\n\nPartner closely with Product Management, UX, Architecture, Infrastructure, Data, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.\n\nAbout You\nRequiredQualifications:\n4 years ofdegree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and backend systems.\n\nAIEngineering:\nHands-on experience designing and deploying productionAI applications, AI-powered tools, or agentic systems using modern Large Language Models (LLMs).\n\nExperience building autonomous or multi-agent workflows using technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Google ADK, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent orchestration frameworks.\n\nStrong understanding of AI application architecture, including Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation 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