Senior Engineer - CircleCard Platform

Target

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$98,000–$176,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $167k
This role $137k
$85k most similar roles pay here $216k

This role pays less than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $140,500–$193,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $137k versus about $167k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Target

Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

Target currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 58 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer - CircleCard Platform

As a Senior Engineer – CircleCard Platform, you will join the CircleCard Platform team to design and build highly scalable, reliable backend services and infrastructure that power critical account management, payments, and compliance processing. You will develop high-volume REST and GraphQL APIs, manage event-driven integrations using Kafka, and build large-scale data processing systems for heavy file ingestion. The role involves integrating advanced AI technologies, including domain-specific agents, MCP tools, and RAG solutions to create intelligent workflows. You will utilize a technical stack featuring Kotlin, Java, Micronaut, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Python. Your work focuses on solving complex distributed systems problems while ensuring production systems are secure, observable, and maintainable. By building these foundational capabilities, you will directly support the CircleCard ecosystem and enhance guest-facing experiences across digital platforms through innovative, AI-ready platform engineering.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and maintain scalable backend services and platform capabilities using Kotlin, Java, and Micronaut.
  • Build high-performance REST and GraphQL APIs to support large-scale retail and financial workloads.
  • Develop event-driven integrations and asynchronous services using Kafka and modern messaging patterns.
  • Create systems for large-scale data processing and high-volume file ingestion with robust fault tolerance.
  • Optimize PostgreSQL databases through advanced modeling, indexing, and query optimization.
  • Build AI-ready platform capabilities, including domain-specific AI agents and multi-agent workflows.
  • Develop MCP tools and RAG solutions to integrate LLMs into the CircleCard ecosystem.
  • Lead technical design reviews, architecture planning, and the implementation of engineering best practices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale distributed applications, backend services, and platform capabilities.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java with experience using Micronaut or Spring Boot frameworks.
  • Experience designing distributed systems, REST/GraphQL APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL for data modeling and Redis for distributed caching.
  • Proficiency in Python for AI application development, automation, and tooling.
  • Hands-on experience building AI applications, agentic systems, and RAG solutions using LLMs.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and modern CI/CD pipelines.

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