Lead Engineer

The pay range is $111,200.00 - $200,200.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits .

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 Lead Engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier."

Mission and Overview
The Stores and Supply Chain Engineering Team is driven by a mission to delight our guests by ensuring that Target's products are available in the right place, at the right quantity, and at the right time. Our focus is on delivering a seamless and reliable shopping experience through the most efficient, secure, and fast checkout, payment, and returns systems. Supporting over 2,000 stores across the U.S., our team powers the backbone of Target's operations-an extensive supply chain network of 50+ warehouses and a robust transportation fleet moving $19 billion of inventory annually to stores and fulfillment centers. This network enables a variety of fulfillment methods, from distribution centers to in-store solutions, ensuring flexibility and convenience for our guests.

At the core of our operations are the applications and services we develop to empower over 500,000 team members across stores and distribution centers. These tools ensure that our products are always available to meet guest needs. Our systems also support a superior Target shopping experience, powering 60,000+ registers, self-checkout kiosks, and mobile point-of-sale devices.

What We Do
The team builds and maintains critical systems that act as the authoritative sources for inventory movement and logistics decision-making across Target's supply chain. These systems enable:

• Dynamic Logistics Pathways: Supporting flexible and adaptive connections within the supply chain to meet evolving business needs and ensure timely deliveries.
• Optimized Inventory Flow: Accurately determining how goods are forecasted, purchased, and transferred to ensure availability where and when guests need them.
• Streamlined Operations: Empowering teams with the tools to efficiently manage and validate inventory movements while reducing errors and delays.

By focusing on scalability, performance, and accuracy, our systems lay the foundation for a highly efficient and adaptive supply chain network.

Innovation and Growth
Looking to the future, we are expanding our capabilities to incorporate advanced data-driven insights and predictive analytics. This includes collaborating with data scientists to leverage machine learning models for enterprise-wide demand forecasting. These efforts will enable more accurate predictions and smarter replenishment strategies, improving operational efficiency and guest satisfaction.

Target values engineers that care about:

• A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture
• Robust and distributed microservices and event-based architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines
• Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems.
• Automating everything
• Operational excellence with an approach to engineering that makes our guests and team members their top priority.
• Triaging large scale issues with a bias to prevent them from happening in the first place
• Canary and A/B testing to push code multiple times a day during business hours
• Learning and experimenting with technologies
• High observability with robust logs and metrics
• Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure
• Agile teams and team ceremonies

Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include:

• CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker, Drone, Vela
• Testing frameworks like Junit, Spock, KotlinTest
• Languages and Frameworks like Kotlin, Spring Boot, Java, Micronaut, http4k, KTOR, Gradle
• Databases like Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, RocksDB, Influx, ELK Stack(Elasticsearch)
• Distributed event streaming platform like Kafka
• Metrics visualizations like Grafana
• Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana
• Cloud platforms like GCP
• Elastic compute platforms like Kubernetes

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
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities, and key competitors' products and differentiating features
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source). Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

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.

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].