Target’s Enterprise Token Vault Exchange (TVX) platform helps protect sensitive payment and identity data by enabling secure tokenization, token storage, and controlled exchange of tokens across enterprise services. We build high-throughput, resilient services with strong security controls and compliance standards to support critical business workflows.
What you’ll do
Lead the design and development of Java/Spring Boot microservices that enable tokenization, secure storage, and exchange of payment and PII data across the enterprise.
- Build and enforce secure-by-default patterns using Spring Security (authN/authZ, service-to-service security, API security).
- Collaborate with architects, security, and product to translate platform requirements into scalable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence: code quality, automation, observability, reliability, and performance tuning.
- Partner with platform and SRE teams to improve deployment practices and operational readiness.
- Participate in technical mentorship, design reviews, and setting engineering standards for the team.
Required qualifications
Strong hands-on experience building backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
Proven experience implementing security controls using Spring Security.
Experience designing and operating production services (scalability, resiliency, monitoring, incident response).
- Working knowledge of SQL and ability to write basic queries for troubleshooting and analysis.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: OOP, data structures, REST APIs, testing strategy, clean code, and debugging.
Preferred qualifications
- General understanding of certificates / PKI concepts (TLS, keystores/truststores, certificate rotation).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Jenkins (and/or Vela).
- Strong Linux expertise, preferably Ubuntu (process/network debugging, logs, performance basics).
- Familiarity with PCI compliance environments and secure engineering practices.
- Experience with Python for automation, tooling, or scripting.
- Experience with configuration/orchestration tooling such as Ansible / Chef and “config orchestration pipelines”.
What success looks like
- Secure, reliable services shipped with strong test coverage and operational maturity.
- Reduced operational toil through automation and improved CI/CD practices.
- Clear technical direction, mentorship, and consistent delivery across the team.
- Strong partnership with security and compliance stakeholders in a regulated environment.
Top Skills
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.
