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.

Note: This requisition encompasses multiple openings across both our Stores & Supply Chain teams.

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.”

The mission of the Stores and Supply Chain Engineering Team is to delight our guests by having our products available at the right place, right quantity and at the right time with the most reliable, fast, and secure checkout, payment and returns experience at 1870+ stores across the US.  We make this happen using world class supply chain networks that comprises of 50+ warehouses and a massive fleet of transportation services that moves about $19B of inventory to our stores and fulfillment centers. We provide multiple ways of fulfilling our guests needs from our network of distribution centers and stores. We build applications and services that power 500,000+ team members in stores and distribution centers to ensure we have our products available to ultimately delight our guests. We enable team members to give the guest a great Target shopping experience on 60,000+ registers, self-checkout and mobile point of sale devices.

Target values engineers that care about:

A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative cultureRobust and distributed microservices and event-based architectures with mature CI/CD pipelinesCode as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems.Automating everythingOperational excellence with an approach to engineering that makes our guests and team members their top priority.Triaging large scale issues with a bias to prevent them from happening in the first placeCanary and A/B testing to push code multiple times a day during business hoursLearning and experimenting with technologiesHigh observability with robust logs and metricsLeveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructureAgile teams and team ceremonies

Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include:

CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker, Drone, Vela, Spinnaker, Testing frameworks, GatlinLanguages and Frameworks like Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Golang, REST, http4k, KTOR, GradleFront end technologies like React, Redux, Native AndroidDatabases like Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, Influx, ELK Stack(Elasticsearch)Distributed event streaming platform like KafkaMetrics visualizations like GrafanaLog aggregation with Logstash and KibanaCloud platforms like GCPElastic compute platforms like Kubernetes

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 experience7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementationDemonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating featuresDemonstrates 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 infrastructureCommunicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholdersDemonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational healthUnderstands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle managementMaintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertiseStays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed educationExperience in building highly scalable distributed systems

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 performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to 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.