Sr Engineer - iOS

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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 the Same Day Delivery Team:

The Same Day Delivery team powers one of Target’s most dynamic and rapidly growing fulfillment experiences. We build and scale the technology that enables guests to shop online and receive their orders in as little as a few hours—seamlessly connecting digital convenience with the ease of local stores and Shipt’s delivery network. Our iOS engineers craft intuitive, high-performance mobile experiences that bring this promise to life, helping millions of guests get what they need, when they need it. We work in close partnership with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, innovative solutions at scale.

About this Role:

As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Same Day Delivery team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the mobile experience that connects our guests to real-time fulfillment capabilities. You’ll design and build scalable, high-performance iOS features that power Target’s Same Day Delivery experience, collaborating across disciplines to deliver a seamless and delightful guest journey.

You’ll use your technical expertise to evaluate and apply emerging technologies, influence architectural direction, and drive innovation within Target’s mobile ecosystem. You’ll lead design and code reviews, guide complex technical decisions, and ensure solutions meet the highest standards for maintainability, performance, and reliability.

In this role, you’ll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring other engineers and contributing to long-term platform strategy. In addition, you’ll also play a critical role in maintaining code quality, data integrity, and operational excellence through practices like automated testing, continuous integration, and disaster recovery planning.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

What you will do:

• Build guest-facing features using the Swift programming language, leveraging modern Apple frameworks like UIKit and SwiftUI for rich, responsive UI experiences.

• Develop on The Composable Architecture (TCA), alongside thoughtfully designed in-house patterns tailored to our scale.

• Develop clean, well-tested native iOS code to deliver functionality that meets business objectives. 

• Improve code structure and architecture in service of testability, observability and maintainability

• Work closely with partner teams – Business, UX, Product - as needed

• Perform complex engineering tasks independently and collaboratively

• Manage complex cross-team coordination and dependencies

• Evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years building and scaling iOS applications.

• Strong proficiency in Swift, with the ability to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.

• Deep understanding of native iOS tools and frameworks (SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, Instruments, etc.).

• Experience with common iOS architectures such as MVVM, VIPER, or The Composable Architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to design high-performance, scalable, and secure mobile solutions with measurable impact.

• Skilled in debugging, performance tuning, and optimizing complex systems for reliability and responsiveness.

• Comfortable working across large, shared codebases and contributing to long-term architectural direction.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills; able to build trust and alignment across teams and stakeholders.

• Demonstrates initiative and curiosity—proactively driving innovation and exploring emerging technologies.

• Experience with deployment, package management, and CI/CD tools in production environments.

• Designs effective testing strategies and resolves both routine and complex technical issues with minimal guidance.

• Builds strong commitment within the team, supporting shared priorities and mentoring others toward technical excellence.

• Stays current with evolving tools, frameworks, and industry trends through continuous learning and experimentation.

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

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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.