Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may 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 selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
As a Lead Engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering teams supporting the product. You define and evolve architecture, influence technical direction across systems and teams, and ensure engineering investments align with business outcomes. You possess deep technical expertise and broad systems knowledge, enabling you to solve complex problems while acting as a force multiplier through technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering excellence. You balance hands-on execution with strategic thinking, driving scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions that create long-term value for the organization.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Define and evolve architecture across systems and products, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term platform strategy.
Lead design decisions for platform modernization, enterprise data capabilities, integrations, and reliability initiatives.
Create technical roadmaps, ADRs, and modernization strategies that improve scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of automation, AI-assisted engineering, and agentic capabilities where appropriate.
Platform Modernization & Reliability
Drive improvements in reliability, observability, resiliency, security, and system performance across critical platforms.
Reduce technical debt and platform coupling through modernization, service extraction, and event-driven architecture patterns.
Establish reusable engineering patterns and operational standards that improve consistency and delivery velocity.
Engineering Excellence & Influence
Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and raise technical standards across teams.
Act as a force multiplier by enabling engineers and teams to solve complex problems independently.
Partner across engineering, architecture, data, and product organizations to align technical direction and drive execution.
Influence technical decisions, manage technical risk, and communicate strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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 domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s 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 end-to-end 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 self-directed education
Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
- Deep expertise in multiple programming languages and frameworks (open source)
- Experience building highly scalable distributed systems
- Expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
- Experience defining and evolving architecture, platform modernization, integrations, and enterprise data capabilities
- Experience improving reliability, observability, resiliency, and security across platforms
- Ability to create technical roadmaps, ADRs, and modernization strategies
- Mentorship and technical leadership experience; lead design reviews and raise engineering standards
- Understanding and developing solutions for data lifecycle management
- Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills
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.
Target Insights
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.
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