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 an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight.  You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

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 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, http4k, 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

Core responsibilities 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
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

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.