Engineer - Tax Technology

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

1d • $75,400 - $135,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team builds, scales, and maintains the technology that enables Target to accurately calculate, manage, report, and comply with tax and fee obligations across the enterprise. We process taxes and fees across Target's sales channels, supporting high transaction volumes and complex data across stores, digital, procurement, finance, and other enterprise systems.

For every item scanned or added to a cart within the Target ecosystem, our technology helps determine the appropriate taxes and fees based on the item and applicable jurisdiction. Our capabilities support:

* Item taxability, tax rates, and fees across Target's sales channels
* Sales and Use Tax compliance, reporting, and audit defense
* Guest tax-exempt status and associated compliance obligations
* Tax requirements for indirect procurement
* Property and Income Tax processes, including fixed asset data
* Centralized Tax data and reporting capabilities and tax technology needs for key enterprise initiatives

As an Engineer on the Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team, you will contribute to critical applications and services across Target’s Tax Technology landscape. You will work with high-volume transactional systems, complex data flows, third-party tax platforms, and enterprise integrations while helping modernize existing applications and architecture.

You will partner with Tax, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems provide timely, complete, accurate, and reliable tax information. You will help improve resiliency and scalability, incorporate appropriate controls, and make technology decisions with lifecycle management and total cost of ownership in mind.

You will apply and continue to build your engineering skills by solving technical problems and delivering high-quality software. You will balance the delivery of new features with writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code. You will troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight, participate in code reviews, and contribute to maintaining software quality and functional accuracy across the team. You will continue to deepen your understanding of the product, system design, and architecture while actively participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java/Kotlin
• Strong understanding of application architecture, system design, distributed programming, data structures, event-driven architectures and modern engineering practices
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and the ability to evaluate and apply them appropriately
• Commitment to maintaining technical and domain knowledge through formal training and self-directed education

Nice To Haves

• Front-end experience with technologies such as React and Redux

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering that powers the product.
• Develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components.
• Solve engineering problems.
• Balance the speed of delivering new features with the robustness of the software components implemented.
• Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Actively review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team.
• Learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.
• Contribute to critical applications and services across Target’s Tax Technology landscape.
• Work with high-volume transactional systems, complex data flows, third-party tax platforms, and enterprise integrations while helping modernize existing applications and architecture.
• Partner with Tax, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure systems provide timely, complete, accurate, and reliable tax information.
• Help improve resiliency and scalability, incorporate appropriate controls, and make technology decisions with lifecycle management and total cost of ownership in mind.
• Apply and continue to build engineering skills by solving technical problems and delivering high-quality software.
• Balance the delivery of new features with writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to maintaining software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
• Deepen understanding of the product, system design, and architecture while actively participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree