Engineer - Gift Card Services

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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 an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

About this Team:

Target gift cards are a wildly popular product and are one of the top 5 gift cards purchased in the US. The Gift Card Services team is the technology owner for this area of our business. Our team is an integral part of the average sales transactions that happen both in-store or online. Because of this, our technology needs to be both highly performant and reliable. It also needs to interoperate consistently with all of the other critical systems that are part of the checkout process.

As part of our team you'll develop your technical acumen as you directly participate in the development and operation of a high volume, low latency system, while learning how to become a valued member of an enterprise wide group that spans many different product areas and engineering teams and delivers functionality core to Target's business.

The Technology:
We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build amazing technology for our team members and guests-and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation, and continuous learning.

While we're constantly re-evaluating the best technologies to achieve our goals, we currently work with the following technologies:
• CI/CD - GIT and Automated Deployment Pipelines
• Infrastructure - Containerized workloads managed with our own proprietary cloud orchestrator
• Languages - Java, Javascript, Kotlin, SQL
• Frameworks/Libraries - Spring, React
• Data Storage and Streaming - Kafka, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Target Object Store (S3 Compatible)

The ideal candidate for this position will have the desire to become a contributing member of the team as quickly as possible and will have the curiosity and drive to make that happen. Having a solid understanding of how the technologies listed above is important but we're on the hunt for great engineers and that may mean that your experience doesn't perfectly align with our stack. That is ok. Continuous learning and inclusion is what we're built on and if you're passionate about technology and delivering high quality code, you may be just who we're looking for.

Core responsibilities 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
• 1+ years of software development experience

• Dedicated to delivering high quality, clean and testable code
• Designs, implements, and maintains scalable applications using Java (or Kotlin), applying object-oriented principles and modern frameworks to deliver robust, maintainable code

• Develops and optimizes complex database queries and stored procedures using Oracle/TSQL, ensuring high performance and data integrity across distributed systems.
• Understands the concepts of micro-services as a means of delivering distributed systems and applies them to their domain

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

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to . Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.