Sr Engineer Transact Team

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Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that purpose to life through our values culture and the technology experiences we create for guests and team members. Learn more about Target here.

The Transact team builds and supports Targets in-store point-of-sale checkout applications across Front Lane Self-Checkout and other transaction experiences. These applications are used by millions of guests and team members run on more than 50000 registers and support over $80 billion in annual transactions across Target stores.

Transact is a business-critical platform that enables reliable scalable and high-performing checkout experiences in stores. The team is focused on modernizing Targets POS applications improving engineering velocity strengthening operational reliability and delivering intuitive experiences that improve both guest satisfaction and store operations.

As a Senior Engineer on the Transact team you will contribute to the development and modernization of POS checkout applications using React React Router and TypeScript. You will help build resilient accessible and maintainable frontend experiences that integrate with complex enterprise systems transaction-processing services payments capabilities and store infrastructure. You will partner closely with Product UX Store Operations Payments Infrastructure and Platform Engineering teams to deliver checkout capabilities that are scalable reliable and easy for guests and team members to use.

You will support Transact as a P1 production application through a rotation-based support model. This includes helping triage and resolve production issues improving observability reducing recurring incidents and strengthening the reliability of Targets checkout experience.

This role is ideal for a strong frontend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems at scale modernizing critical systems improving engineering practices and owning software that has direct impact across Target stores.

In this role you will:

• Design develop test modernize and maintain frontend applications for Targets in-store POS checkout experiences

• Build modern scalable user interfaces using React React Router TypeScript/Javascript

• Integrate frontend applications with REST APIs enterprise services payments flows and store infrastructure

• Write maintainable well-structured code with a focus on quality reliability accessibility and long-term supportability

• Create and maintain automated tests using tools such as Jest and Playwright

• Participate in design discussions technical planning code reviews and architecture decisions

• Collaborate with Product UX Store Operations Payments Infrastructure and Platform Engineering partners

• Participate in production support for Transact helping resolve issues and improve system reliability

• Use observability tools such as Grafana Kibana and Logstash to monitor troubleshoot and improve application health

• Contribute to modernization efforts that improve developer experience deployment safety and application performance

• Stay current with new technologies engineering practices and AI-enabled development capabilities that can improve team effectiveness

Core Technologies:

• Frontend Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript JavaScript React React Router

• Testing: Jest Playwright

• API Integration: REST APIs Client-side OAuth

• CI/CD & Containerization: Docker (Colima) Vela

• Observability & Monitoring: Grafana Kibana

• Platform Technologies: Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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

• 5 years of software development experience

• Strong frontend engineering experience with TypeScript JavaScript React and modern frontend architecture

• Experience building applications that integrate with REST APIs and enterprise systems

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices

• Experience writing automated tests and supporting quality engineering practices

• Ability to debug complex issues across frontend applications APIs infrastructure and production environments

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions risks and tradeoffs clearly

• Ability to work independently with minimal assistance while contributing effectively as part of a broader team

• A strong sense of ownership for production quality reliability maintainability and user impact

• Ability to build alignment around team priorities and contribute to a healthy engineering culture

• Curiosity and commitment to continuous learning through formal training self-directed education experimentation and hands-on delivery

• Interest in exploring innovation and AI capabilities that improve engineering productivity and user experiences

Nice-to-Have Experience

Experience with any of the following is helpful but not required:

• Java Golang Spring Boot

• Gradle and PostgreSQL

• Enterprise transaction-processing systems

• Point-of-sale payments retail or store technology platforms

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.

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