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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:
The Tile team maintains a collaborative editing tool that enables designers and merchants within Target to design and develop new product for Target. Our goal is to ensure that product design and ideation is connected to Target’s product development ecosystem. This enables us to reduce toil for our designers by obviating labor intensive and error-prone manual data copying and reconciliation. As our product grows, we will be working on a combination of usability/quality-of-life features to ensure that our users have a best-in-class editing tool, as well as opinionated workflows to enable users to bring their designs to life within Target.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you will:
- Design, implement and maintain collaborative editing features for Target’s designers and merchants.
- Connect the Tile application to Target’s product and materials data sources.
- Integrate the Tile application into the PLM ecosystem by building search, notification and reporting capabilities.
- Help scale the Tile application as it onboards a large cohort of new users in 2027.
- Improve reliability and observability of our application to help maintain a high engineering quality bar and excellent user experience as we grow.
Note that although this position has a substantial front-end component, we are looking for candidates who well help us grow and harden our backend ecosystem as much as we are looking for front-end expertise. 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
- 5+ years of software development experience, including a healthy mix of experience with:
- React/Typescript and common front-end implementation patterns.
- Relational databases, particularly Postgres.
- GraphQL and common patterns for query optimization/performance tuning.
- Kafka and common patterns for building enterprise messaging pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of a common enterprise backend stack.
- Demonstrates strong enterprise architecture fundamentals (e.g. “why do we put a service layer in front of a database”)
- Demonstrates knowledge of common testing frameworks/patterns for front-end systems.
- Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions
- Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
- Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms within own domain
- Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
- Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests
- Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
- Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
- Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
- Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
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
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience with React and TypeScript, including common front-end implementation patterns
- Experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
- Experience with GraphQL, including query optimization and performance tuning
- Experience with Kafka and enterprise messaging pipelines
- Strong knowledge of a common enterprise backend stack
- Strong enterprise architecture fundamentals
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and patterns for front-end systems
- Working knowledge of package-specific configuration and deployment
- Ability to design testing methods and resolve routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
- Proficiency in core development platforms within the relevant domain
- Understanding of Agile concepts and ability to communicate them to product partners
- Experience writing and organizing code using multiple computer languages, distributed programming, frameworks, and paradigms
- Ability to deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure software
- Ability to influence and apply data standards, policies, and procedures
- Ability to maintain technical knowledge and stay current with evolving technologies
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.
