Backend Engineer Roundel

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Roundel is Targets entry into the media business with an impact of $1B; an advertising sell-side business built on the principles of first party (people based) data brand safe content environments and proof that our marketing programs drive business results for our clients. We are here to drive business growth for our clients and redefine value in the industry by solving core industry challenges vs. copy current industry methods of operation. Roundel is a key growth initiative for Target and lead the industry to a better way of operating within the media marketplace. Target Tech is on a mission to offer the systems tools and support that our clients guests and team members need and deserve. 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.

About this Team:

Roundel Media Studio is Targets ad campaign management platform that enables external companies to create manage and optimize advertising campaigns with Target. As a self-service application it allows advertisers to independently run product ad campaigns through the platform reducing reliance on internal teams and expanding scalable campaign management capabilities.

This role will support Roundel Media Studio Targets self-service ad campaign management platform for external advertisers. The platform enables companies to directly create and manage their product advertising campaigns with Target.

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.

Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer youll take the lead as you
Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design lifecycle management and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review writes organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance delivers high-performance scalable repeatable and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction automation debugging and implementation activities ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.

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

Technical Skillset:

Experience with Java/J2EE REST API development
Experience developing microservices/application frameworks (Spring Boot) mono repo is preferred
Experience with NoSQL DB or relational DB
Experience with development testing frameworks (Junit/Mockito)
Experience with open-source logging and reporting solutions: Logstash Elasticsearch and Kibana/Grafana
Knowledge of Messaging and Event Systems such as Kafka is a plus
Strong verbal presentation and written communications skills for technical audiences;

Experience working on devops model
Good interpersonal problem solving reasoning and analytical skills
Experience with CI/CD technologies

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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