Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, USA
1 day ago
Lead Android Engineer - Stores Mobile UI team
The pay range is $111,200.00 - $200,200.00

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.

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 lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About this Team:

As a Stores Mobile Android Engineer, you will work on our exciting Stores Mobile app called "myDay." The myDay app is used by all team members in stores to receive, create, execute, and inform about tasks related to practically all activities in the stores. This includes all the easy to see things, like knowing when to restock shelves, ordering groceries, changing prices, and moving things around when displays change. It also includes everything from  inventory control, notifications, managing expiring items, and even to logging when cleaning and other events happen. We do this all on a native Android application, leveraging numerous Enterprise systems and APIs to provide rich data through a consistent and user-first designed interface.

As a Lead Engineer on the Stores Mobile UI team you will:
Help define and drive the engineering culture and project direction of our myDay app and team. You will have input on, and participate in the ownership of, the software development lifecycle, and partner with our data and infrastructure peers to ensure a comprehensive and robust environment for the success of our application. You will help in the development and growth of the other engineers on the team, striving for high levels of code quality, integrity, and reliability. As a member of the team's leadership group, you will have influence over one of the most crucial applications developed at Target for our team members.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 

About you:
• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation

• 4+ years of experience developing apps for Android
• Experience developing in Kotlin
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source). Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

• Demonstrates ability to lead projects, mentor teammates, and drive technical and project directions.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performedboth onsite at the Target HQ location this role assigned to (Brooklyn Park, MN or Salt Lake City, UT), and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.

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