Senior Engineer – Apply For CircleCard 

The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. 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 . Senior Engineer –   Apply   For   CircleCard   About us:   Working 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 .   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 :   Apply   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,   you’ll   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 Target’s 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 You'll 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 using Kotlin, 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