Sr Engineer Price Publish (Price Decision Engine)

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As a Senior Engineer you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

About this Team:

The Price Publish team is responsible for processing and publishing price changes across enterprise Target stores and Digital. The teams applications power pricing through REST APIs and Kafka-based event processing ensuring accurate and timely price updates.
The team is in the final phase of a major platform modernization (PDEv2) focused on improving scalability throughput and performance. This new TM will contribute to both the new architecture and the existing production platform while helping deliver new business capabilities. This is a Senior Engineer individual contributor role requiring the ability to quickly understand an established codebase work independently and collaborate effectively with engineering teams across the U.S. and India.

Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer youll 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 participate in decision-making accounting for several factors such as viability within Targets technical environment maintainability and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. Manage total product financials and forecasting. Lead the design lifecycle management and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review design review testing and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction automation and implementation activities ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met. Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition processing storage and operational use.

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

5 years of software development experience

Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Targets technology capabilities and key competitors products and differentiating features

Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions

Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance

Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms within own domain

Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities

Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team

Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests

Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm

Delivers high-performance scalable repeatable and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)

Influences and applies data standards policies and procedures

Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Strong experience in developing enterprise applications using Java

Strong experience with Kotlin or the ability to quickly become productive in Kotlin

Strong experience building distributed backend services using Apache Kafka including producer and consumer implementations

Experience designing developing and supporting high-volume Rest APIs

Strong experience with relational databases such as Oracle and/or PostgreSQL

Familiarity working with distributed NoSQL databases such as Cassandra

Experience working within large existing enterprise applications and contributing with minimal onboarding

Ability to independently troubleshoot develop test and deliver production-quality software

Preferred Skills:

Experience with modular mono repo architectures

Experience working in framework-light or framework-free Java applications

Experience with RocksDB

Experience supporting high-throughput event-driven or large-scale distributed systems

Retail pricing or eCommerce platform experience

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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