Lead Engineer - Stores

Profile

About Us:

Target as a tech company? Absolutely! We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and

team members need and deserve. 

Our high-performing team

balance

s

independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out. 

TEAM AND CULTURE

Target values engineers that care about:

Robust and distri

buted

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 fr

om happening in the first place

C

anary 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 infrastructur

e

A diverse, inclusive and collaborative culture

BUSINESS CAPABILITIES AND IMPACT

The mission of the Stores

engineering team

is to ensure fast, reliable and secure guest checkout, payment and returns experience at 1870 stores across the US.   We enable nearly 80,000 team members to give the guest a great Target shopping experience on 60,000 registers, self-checkout and mobile point of sale devices. We build applications and

services that power 350,000 team m

embers

in

stores to

ensure we have our products available at the right place, right quantity, and at the right time

to ultimately

delight our guests

TECHNOLOGY

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

Code Pipelines like Drone, Spinnaker

Languages and Frameworks like  Spring Boot, Java,

Kotlin

, Micronaut and

Golang

Front end technologies like React, Native Android

Databases like 

Postgres

, Cassandra, Mongo,

I

nflux

Metrics visualizations like

Grafana

Log aggregation with 

L

ogstash

 and 

K

ibana

Cloud platforms like GCP 

Elastic compute platforms like 

K

ubernetes

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.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Lead Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level. In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. Participate in planning services that have enterprise impact. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Gather information, data, and input from a wide variety of sources; identify additional resources when appropriate, engage with appropriate stakeholders, and conduct in-depth analysis of information. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Develop plans and schedules, estimate resource requirements, and define milestones and deliverables. Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles. Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met. Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems. Serve as an expert resource in disaster recovery and disaster recovery planning. Stay current with Target’s technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment. Develop fully attributed data models, including logical, physical, and canonical. Influence data standards, policies, and procedures. Install, configure, and/or tune data management solutions with minimal guidance. Monitor data management solution(s) and identify optimization opportunities

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

OPEN ENGINEERING OPPORTUNTIES

We

have a number of open roles across our

Stores engineering teams.  They vary across engineering level/experience, technology focus, or business area.  If you are interested in learning more

contact us or apply to start a conversation.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) 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 Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

Company info

Target Brands, Inc.
Website : http://www.target.com/