The Role
Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack applications and backend services for Risk & Compliance. Develop APIs and enterprise integrations, improve reliability and observability, support production systems, contribute to system design and platform modernization, mentor peers, and help deliver GenAI-enabled capabilities.
Summary Generated by Built In
Senior Engineer – Full Stack (Risk & Compliance Platform)
Role Overview
Join the TES LegalTech – Risk & Compliance engineering team to build and enhance platforms that support Target's governance, risk, compliance, and legal operations. Our applications enable critical business capabilities through modern, cloud-native technologies including Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, React, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
As a Senior Engineer, you'll partner with product, engineering, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while helping modernize our platform and drive innovation, including GenAI-enabled capabilities.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop scalable full-stack applications and backend services.
- Build APIs and enterprise integrations.
- Contribute to system design and platform modernization.
- Deliver secure, reliable, and observable software.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business solutions.
- Support production systems and improve reliability and performance.
- Mentor peers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to GenAI-enabled solutions and innovation
About you
Must Have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise applications.
- Strong experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern frontend frameworks (React preferred).
- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
- Experience participating in system design, code reviews, and production support.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kafka, GraphQL, Golang, Redis, Elasticsearch, or cloud-native technologies.
- Experience with observability, CI/CD, or DevSecOps practices.
- Exposure to GenAI, Python, LLM integrations, AI agents, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Experience working in Risk & Compliance, LegalTech, Governance, or other regulated enterprise domains.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years software engineering experience building enterprise applications
- Strong experience with Java
- Strong experience with Kotlin
- Strong experience with Spring Boot
- Strong experience building REST APIs
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks
- Experience with React
- Experience building scalable backend services and distributed systems
- Familiarity with relational databases
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases
- Experience participating in system design, code reviews, and production support
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Elasticsearch
- Experience with cloud-native technologies
- Experience with observability, CI/CD, or DevSecOps practices
- Exposure to GenAI, Python, LLM integrations, AI agents, or RAG
- Experience in Risk & Compliance, LegalTech, Governance, or regulated enterprise domains
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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The Company
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.
