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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 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:
Digital Checkout (DCO) owns the services behind Add to Cart, View Cart, and Checkout for Target.com and the Target app. We grow, deepen, and simplify those capabilities, and we keep them secure, reliable, and ready for scale.
Our services sit between Web, iOS, and Android and the enterprise systems that power pricing, promotions, fulfillment, loyalty, and order capture, so the same purchase path works across digital and store experiences.
You’ll work on systems guests use every time they buy, from high-demand launches and fulfillment choices to Circle and loyalty benefits and the ongoing re-platform of checkout. You’ll partner closely with product, guest experience, and enterprise domain teams, and the decisions you make show up directly in how simple and dependable the purchase experience is for guests.
Use your skills, experience, and talents to shape how guests add to cart and check out. As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you design and implement production-quality services, evaluate new technologies for fit, maintainability, and cost, and turn proof-of-concept work into systems the team can run. You’ll lead code and design reviews, testing, and debugging, and take part in building, automating, and releasing changes that meet architectural and operational standards. You’ll coach other engineers through complex technical issues, keep the services you own healthy in production, and contribute to disaster recovery so problems are found and fixed quickly.
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 domain knowledge of Target’s technology capabilities.
• Working knowledge of service configuration and deployment.
• Designs new testing methods and resolves technical issues with minimal assistance.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin/Java, including building services with Micronaut/Spring Boot.
• Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within the product team.
• A solid understanding of how their own work affects the team and guests.
• Writes and organizes code across services and frameworks, including distributed systems where throughput and latency matter.
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure services with broad impact.
• Maintains technical knowledge within their areas of expertise.
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies through formal training and self-directed learning.
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
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- Five or more years of software development experience
- Strong domain knowledge of Target's technology capabilities
- Working knowledge of service configuration and deployment
- Ability to design testing methods and resolve technical issues with minimal assistance
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Java
- Experience building services with Micronaut or Spring Boot
- Ability to communicate Agile concepts to product team partners
- Experience writing and organizing code across services and frameworks, including distributed systems
- Ability to deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure services
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.
