Job Description

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00

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

The Lead Engineer, Supply Chain – Load & Ship builds systems and services that handle trailer loading and the representational state of shipments within supply chain. Replenishing inventory to our 2000 stores and fulfillment centers, we’re processing at an enterprise scale, moving over 1 billion items monthly. We help Target fulfill its purpose to helping all families discover the joy of everyday life by ensuring that the right inventory gets to the shelf on time for our guest to purchase.

As a Lead Engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports the Load & Ship products. You create, own, and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier.”

Core Technologies:

• Backend Languages Java, Kotlin, Groovy

• Runtimes/Frameworks: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Ratpack

• Testing JUnit, Spock, KotlinTest

• Messaging Kafka, AMQ

• CI/CD Docker, Drone, Vela

• Metrics & Monitoring InfluxDB, Grafana

• Databases: Postgres, Elastic, Oracle

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

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features

• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source)

• Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure

• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health

• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management

• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise

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

• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

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)

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