Lead Engineer
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$ 126600 - 227900
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Job Description
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay 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 benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to wellbeing and beyond at This requisition may encompass 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 tolife 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 nonfunctional 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.
Mission and Overview
The Stores and Supply Chain Engineering Team is driven by a mission to delight our guests by ensuring that Targets products are available in the right place at the right quantity and at the right time. Our focus is on delivering a seamless and reliable shopping experience through the most efficient secure and fast checkout payment and returns systems. Supporting over 2000 stores across the U.S. our team powers the backbone of Targets operationsan extensive supply chain network of 50 warehouses and a robust transportation fleet moving $19 billion of inventory annually to stores and fulfillment centers. This network enables a variety of fulfillment methods from distribution centers to instore solutions ensuring flexibility and convenience for our guests.
At the core of our operations are the applications and services we develop to empower over 500000 team members across stores and distribution centers. These tools ensure that our products are always available to meet guest needs. Our systems also support a superior Target shopping experience powering 60000 registers selfcheckout kiosks and mobile pointofsale devices.
By focusing on scalability performance and accuracy our systems lay the foundation for a highly efficient and adaptive stores and supply chain network.
Innovation and Growth
Looking to the future we are expanding our capabilities to incorporate advanced datadriven insights and predictive analytics. This includes collaborating with data scientists to leverage machine learning models for enterprisewide demand forecasting. These efforts will enable more accurate predictions and smarter replenishment strategies improving operational efficiency and guest satisfaction.
Target values engineers that care about:
- A diverse inclusive and collaborative culture
- Robust and distributed microservices and eventbased 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:
- Languages and Frameworks like Kotlin Java Groovy Spring Boot Micronaut http4k KTOR Gradle JavaScript TypeScript ReactJS
- Testing frameworks like Junit Spock KotlinTest
- Distributed event streaming platforms like Kafka
- CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker Drone Vela
- Databases like Postgres Cassandra Mongo RocksDB Influx ELK Stack(Elasticsearch)
- Metrics visualizations like Grafana
- Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana
- Cloud platforms like GCP
- Elastic 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 experience
- 7 years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
- Demonstrates strong domainspecific knowledge regarding Targets 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 endtoend 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 selfdirected education
- Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members 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.
Benefits Eligibility
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Full-Time
