Engineer

Software Engineer

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. 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.

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
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Knowledge of Solr or any Lucene based Search index and / OR AlloyDB or any vector DB
• 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.

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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.