Engineer – ATP Ship Methods

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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: ATP Ship Methods is one of the most complex systems in retail spanning millions of data points, handles million TPS with response times of sub 20ms. We bring joy to our guests by providing how they can get items delivered to them via Target’s iconic Drive up, In Store Pickup, Ship to Home or Shipt Scheduled Delivery. As part of this role, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and build new solutions in promise services and tools that operate efficiently at extremely high scale. And an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies aimed at enhancing quality, scalability, and speed. We are not just experimenting with AI — we are building with AI, scaling with AI, and running on AI. This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of applied AI in production systems. You’ll help shape how AI transforms our engineering practices, product capabilities, and operational excellence. From integrating intelligent automation into core platforms to reimagining workflows with generative AI, you’ll work on real-world, high-impact problems at enterprise scale. Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.

Requirements

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Experience in JVM based language, tools, and frameworks, including Java and/or Kotlin
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Nice To Haves

• Experience following best practices in developing Rest APIs at scale, using Kotlin, Kafka Spring frameworks, build pipeline, and cloud CI/CD, automated testing, observability, code review, static analysis, etc.
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience working with SQL/No-SQL databases
• Experience with authenticated sessions using OAuth and authentication tokens
• Experience developing Rest APIs at high scale
• Experience with design/development/use of analytics solutions
• Experience with agile methodology
• Knowledge of Hazelcast, Redis or other caching frameworks

Responsibilities

• Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs.
• With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.
• Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts.
• Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance.
• Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics.
• Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.

Benefits

• 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.
• We care about and invest 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level