Lead Full-Stack Engineer, AI-powered Applications (Hybrid)

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Holidays and vacation

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer for Advanced AI in Minnesota. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain full-stack services and user experiences enabling AI/ML capabilities across core business workflows.

Collaborate with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable production applications while mentoring others and promoting engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience building full-stack applications (frontend/backend).
• Proficiency with modern backend and frontend development.
• Experience with Python; also TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin or Go.
• Experience with API design, service-oriented architectures, data integration, and production apps.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities (LLMs, agentic systems, data science outputs).
• Strong system design, security, performance, reliability, 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 and CI/CD, code reviews, documentation, and production support.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into technical solutions; cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Self-driven, ownership, and high standards.
• Collaborative team player and continuous learner.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain full-stack application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences for AI/ML capabilities.
• Collaborate with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform and security teams, and stakeholders.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for full-stack initiatives and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Create production-quality code, APIs, and services; develop user-facing experiences.
• Ensure applications are secure, reliable, accessible, performant, and maintainable according to enterprise standards.
• Shape technical approaches with engineers to evolve reusable patterns for AI-powered products.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Full-stack development

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

Kotlin

Go

API design

Web frameworks

SOA

AI/ML integration

LLM workflows

System design

Security

Observability

CI/CD

Documentation

Mentoring

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer for Advanced AI in Minnesota. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain full-stack services and user experiences enabling AI/ML capabilities across core business workflows.

Collaborate with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable production applications while mentoring others and promoting engineering best practices.