Lead Engineer

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 .

About the role:

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 comprise 50+ warehouses and a massive fleet of transportation services that move 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 culture
• Robust and distributed microservices and event-based architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines
• Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems
• Automating everything
• Operational 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 place
• Canary and A/B testing to push code multiple times a day during business hours
• Learning and experimenting with technologies
• High observability with robust logs and metrics
• Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure
• Agile 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, Gatlin
• Languages and Frameworks like Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Golang, REST, KTOR, Gradle
• Front end technologies like React, Redux, Native Android
• Databases like Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, Influx, ELK Stack(Elasticsearch)
• Distributed event streaming platform like Kafka
• Metrics visualizations like Grafana
• Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana
• Cloud platforms like GCP
• Elastic compute platforms like Kubernetes

About you:

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

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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.