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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.
About Tax Technology:
The Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team builds, scales, and maintains the technology that enables Target to accurately calculate, manage, report, and comply with tax and fee obligations across the enterprise. We process taxes and fees across Target's sales channels, supporting high transaction volumes and complex data across stores, digital, procurement, finance, and other enterprise systems.
For every item scanned or added to a cart within the Target ecosystem, our technology helps determine the appropriate taxes and fees based on the item and applicable jurisdiction. Our capabilities support:
- Item taxability, tax rates, and fees across Target's sales channels
- Sales and Use Tax compliance, reporting, and audit defense
- Guest tax-exempt status and associated compliance obligations
- Tax requirements for indirect procurement
- Property and Income Tax processes, including fixed asset data
- Centralized Tax data and reporting capabilities and tax technology needs for key enterprise initiatives
As an Engineer on the Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team, you will contribute to critical applications and services across Target’s Tax Technology landscape. You will work with high-volume transactional systems, complex data flows, third-party tax platforms, and enterprise integrations while helping modernize existing applications and architecture.
You will partner with Tax, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems provide timely, complete, accurate, and reliable tax information. You will help improve resiliency and scalability, incorporate appropriate controls, and make technology decisions with lifecycle management and total cost of ownership in mind.
You will apply and continue to build your engineering skills by solving technical problems and delivering high-quality software. You will balance the delivery of new features with writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code. You will troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight, participate in code reviews, and contribute to maintaining software quality and functional accuracy across the team. You will continue to deepen your understanding of the product, system design, and architecture while actively participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies.
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Technology environment:Relevant experience with the following technologies is recommended; experience with comparable enterprise technologies is also valuable.
- Backend: Java, Groovy, Kotlin
- Frameworks: Spring Boot
- Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
- Data and integration: Kafka
- CI/CD: Git, Vela, Ansible
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java/Kotlin
- Strong understanding of application architecture, system design, distributed programming, data structures, event-driven architectures and modern engineering practices
- Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
- Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and the ability to evaluate and apply them appropriately
- Commitment to maintaining technical and domain knowledge through formal training and self-directed education
- Front-end experience with technologies such as React and Redux
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s 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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In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Skills Required
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of software development experience
- At least one full-cycle software implementation
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Java or Kotlin
- Understanding of application architecture and system design
- Understanding of distributed programming and data structures
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and modern engineering practices
- Ability to communicate and coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders
- Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and ability to evaluate and apply them appropriately
- Commitment to maintaining technical and domain knowledge through training and self-directed education
- Front-end experience with React and Redux
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
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What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.






