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# Lead Engineer - Gen AI at Target

**Location**
: Bengaluru, Karnataka

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Jul 15, 2026

## Description

Target is hiring a Lead Engineer for its Product Engineering team in Bengaluru to design and deliver scalable backend systems, guide technical teams, and integrate large language models and generative AI into core applications. The role requires 7+ years of software design and development experience, including 5+ years building scalable backend applications, with expertise in Java and Kotlin, microservices, AI reliability, messaging, databases, CI/CD, cloud services, containerization, and observability.

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