Hybrid Lead Full-Stack AI Engineer

Socket.dev; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Disability insurance

Paid sick leave

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer for Advanced AI in Minnesota. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain the application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences that bring AI/ML capabilities into core business workflows.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, production‑grade applications that meet Target’s standards.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production applications
• Strong experience building full-stack applications, including user-facing experiences, backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-driven workflows
• Strong proficiency with modern backend and frontend development
• Experience with Python is strongly preferred and experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin or Go
• Experience with modern web application frameworks, API design, service-oriented architectures, data integration patterns, and production application development
• Experience building applications that integrate with AI/ML capabilities, including model APIs, LLM-powered workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, intelligent automation, or data science outputs
• Strong understanding of system design, application architecture, security, performance, scalability, reliability, accessibility, observability, testing, and production deployment considerations
• Experience building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, applications, or platforms
• Experience with version control, CI/CD, code review practices, documentation, operational monitoring, and production support
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and user needs into clear technical approaches and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver practical solutions
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to engineers, AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, business stakeholders and leaders
• Ability to mentor engineers, contribute to technical direction, and raise the quality of full-stack engineering practices within a team
• Self-driven and results-oriented, with strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards
• Collaborative team player with a commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and building reliable AI-powered applications that create business value

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of full-stack AI-powered applications
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, product partners, and security teams to turn complex AI capabilities into practical, scalable solutions
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, establish engineering practices, and ensure secure, reliable production deployments

Skills

Full-stack development

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript/Java

API design

Security and scalability

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability & testing

Production deployment

Education

4-year degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

REST APIs

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer for Advanced AI in Minnesota. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain the application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences that bring AI/ML capabilities into core business workflows.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, production‑grade applications that meet Target’s standards.