Sr Android Engineer - Flagship Mobile App

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Target is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer in Minnesota to join the flagship mobile app teams. You will help develop and evolve the Android experiences for Content and Drive Up/Pickup, collaborating with cross-functional partners across Android and iOS, backend, product, and design to deliver high-quality guest experiences at scale.

The role focuses on Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and a modern Android tech stack, with a hybrid work arrangement onsite at Target HQ MN and virtual

Qualifications

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software design and development experience.
• 3+ years of Android app development.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and coroutines.
• Experience distributing apps via public stores or enterprise channels.
• Strong knowledge of JSON and REST APIs.
• Experience profiling and tuning mobile apps performance.
• Hands-on with Android Studio and Android SDK.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Proactive and innovative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own development, testing, and quality of new features in collaboration with product and design partners.
• Keep abreast of technology trends and advances in mobile technologies.
• Research, evaluate, and provide objective feedback on technologies.
• Inform innovative design with relevant technology insights.
• Develop fully functional prototypes to test against hypotheses.
• Produce clear and concise technical deliverables for internal and external use.
• Innovate constantly and maintain a technical edge.
• Collaborate with Android and iOS engineers, backend developers, product managers, designers, QA, data partners, and store operations.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

REST APIs

UI testing

Education

4 year degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Android Studio

Android SDK

Retrofit

Moshi

Epoxy

Gradle

Job description

The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00
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 a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist on the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight into application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, and providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
Join the team that brings Target guests their \"shopping and saving sidekick\" – the guest facing Target Android shopping app.
About These Teams
We have Sr Android Engineer opportunities across two teams within Target's flagship mobile app: Content and Drive Up/Pickup. Team placement will be based on experience, interests, and team alignment. On either team, you’ll work alongside Android and iOS engineers and cross-functional partners to build and evolve high-quality guest experiences at scale.
Content Team
On the Content Apps team, you'll be responsible for the display of server-driven and static content on the Homepage of our Flagship Android app and beyond. You will work with a team of engineers from both Android and iOS who work together to ensure the best possible code quality and Guest experience. By working closely with other Flagship app teams and cross-functional partners you will help to enhance and redefine the Target Guest experience.
Drive Up/Pickup Team
The Drive Up team builds and supports the Android experiences that power Target's convenient, store-based order pickup journey. Our products connect guests with store team members throughout the fulfillment process, from order placement and pickup readiness to guest arrival, parking spot selection, order handoff, and post-pickup updates. These experiences are used at significant scale and play an important role in helping Target deliver a fast, convenient, and dependable shopping experience.
Our Android applications are developed primarily with Kotlin and modern Android technologies, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, Jetpack libraries, and a layered, testable architecture. The team works with distributed backend services and APIs to support real-time order and fulfillment updates, guest notifications, location-based functionality, and communication between guests and store teams. We focus on building responsive user experiences that remain reliable across different network conditions, device configurations, and store environments.
Android developers on the team contribute throughout the software development lifecycle. This includes participating in technical design, implementing new features, writing unit and UI tests, improving application performance, monitoring production behavior, and resolving issues that affect guests and store operations. We use modern engineering practices, automated CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, observability, and incremental delivery to maintain a high-quality mobile platform.
You will collaborate closely with Android and iOS engineers, backend developers, product managers, designers, QA engineers, data partners, and store operations teams. Together, we solve complex technical and operational problems while improving the reliability, maintainability, and usability of the Drive Up experience. This is an opportunity to work on customer-facing Android applications with meaningful business impact and a broad range of mobile engineering challenges.
As a Senior Android Software Engineer on the Flagship mobile team you will:

• Own development, testing, and quality of new features in collaboration with product and design partners
• Keep abreast of technology trends and advances in mobile technologies
• Research, evaluate, and provide objective feedback on technologies
• Inform innovative design with relevant technology insights
• Develop fully functional prototypes to objectively test against hypotheses
• Be able to produce clear and concise technical deliverables for internal and external use
• Innovate constantly and maintain a technical edge

Core responsibilities of this job 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
• 5+ years of experience in software design & development
• 3+ years of experience developing apps for Android
• Experience developing in Kotlin, including using coroutines
• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels
• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, REST APIs, etc)
• Experience performance profiling and tuning consumer facing mobile applications
• Excellent hands-on skills with Android application development tools, including Android Studio and the Android SDK
• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
• Proactively helps drive innovation within the company

Desired Experience

• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience integrating libraries with Gradle and using other third party frameworks tools and SDKs, such as Retrofit, Moshi, and Epoxy
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger, Hilt, or Anvil
• Experience with instrumented UI testing with Espresso
• Experience with continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing
• Experience with authenticated sessions using OAuth and authentication tokens

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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