Engineer - Sales and Tender

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid vacation

Job summary

Target in Minnesota is seeking an Engineer on the Sales and Tender team. You will deliver robust and scalable software components, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions while balancing speed and quality. You are passionate about software quality and eager to learn the product design.

You will work in a Hybrid/Flex environment at Target's MN location, with on-site and virtual work as needed. A 4-year degree and software development experience are expected.

Qualifications

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of software development experience.
• Familiar with current and emerging technologies and able to apply them.
• Understands distributed programming concepts and data structures.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.
• Understands package solutions and development objects.
• Maintains technical knowledge and stays current with new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Be an active participant in team ceremonies like daily stand-ups and sprint planning.
• Engage with products and partners to grow domain knowledge.
• Own feature development from test to prod and manage scope.
• Design and implement testable and maintainable features.
• Learn and share relevant engineering skills with peers.
• Provide tech overviews for new technologies and assess opportunities.
• Identify risks or opportunities in existing technologies.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Groovy

JavaScript

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Postgres

Cassandra

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Grafana

Spring Boot

Camel

Praxis

GitHub Actions

Vela

Job description

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $135,700.00

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 an Engineer on the Sales and Tender team, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.

Additionally, this Engineer will be responsible for...

• Being an active participant in team ceremonies like daily stan-ups and bi-weekly sprint plannings
• Engaging with products and partners to grow domain knowledge
• Understanding their capacity and owning feature development from test to prod
• Designing and implementing testable and supportable features
• Leaning and growing relevant engineering skills and sharing them with your peers
• Researching and providing proof of technology overviews for new and upcoming technologies
• Identifying impending risks or opportunities in existing owned technologies

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
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Preferred Qualifications

• CI/CD experience; Vela, GitHub actions or similar service (drone, chef, etc.)
• Experience with storage and Caching: Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, and Elasticsearch
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Groovy, JavaScript and Python
• Experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Camel and Praxis
• Experience with Kafka for data movement and Grafana for metrics visualization

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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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 [e-mail]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.