Freelance Environmental Engineer — Own the Tech Outcome

Energy Innovation Corp; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 71,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor guidance

Life outside Target benefits

Job summary

Target in Buffalo, NY is hiring an Environmental Engineer to investigate and fix bugs, improve legacy Nginx modules, and drive Cypress-based migrations. You will split large initiatives into tangible Cypress increments and establish observability across the Buffalo platform.

You will be measured against a mid-level performance bar, with a mentor and life-outside-Target benefits. The role offers a salary range and a supportive team behind you.

Qualifications

• Self-driven and able to work with minimal oversight.
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.
• Experience thriving in a performance-driven, deadline-driven setting like Target.
• A point of view on Target's space, sharpened by your own reading.
• Calm under the scrappy-but-steady chaos a mid-level role tends to generate.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Revise legacy Nginx modules and improve their quality.
• Break large initiatives into Cypress increments Buffalo can deliver.
• Spot the Git anti-pattern in reviews before it spreads.
• Establish observability so Target sees failures before NY customers.
• Lead the Cypress migration to retire Target's legacy stack.
• Ship incremental improvements to Target's Buffalo platform on a regular cadence.

Skills

Self-motivated

Independent work

Tech best practices

Deadline-driven

Mid-level Target experience

Time management

Outcome-oriented

Tools

Nginx

Cypress

Observability tools

Job description

Target in Buffalo, NY is hiring an Environmental Engineer to investigate and fix bugs, improve legacy Nginx modules, and drive Cypress-based migrations. You will split large initiatives into tangible Cypress increments and establish observability across the Buffalo platform.

You will be measured against a mid-level performance bar, with a mentor and life-outside-Target benefits. The role offers a salary range and a supportive team behind you.