Engineer - US

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

1d • $75,400 - $135,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Engineer on Target’s Marketing Ad Planning (MAP) platform team, you will help build and maintain a scalable, multi-tenant advertising campaign management platform. The platform supports campaign data, configurations, and lifecycle operations and integrates with internal marketing systems and advertising platforms. You will collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and extensible capabilities for campaign planning and activation.

You will design, develop, and enhance backend services and APIs for campaign data management, validation, and lifecycle operations. The work includes distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integrations, as well as contributing to platform reliability, performance, and scalability and participating in technical design and architecture discussions.

You will solve technical problems and deliver high-quality software, balancing new feature delivery with reliable, maintainable, well-tested code. You will troubleshoot operational issues with little or no oversight, participate in code reviews, and help maintain software quality across the team. You will deepen your understanding of the product, system design, and architecture while participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 1 year of software development experience, including at least one full-cycle implementation.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java or Kotlin.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, application architecture, system design, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with microservices, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern software development practices.
• Experience developing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software applications.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues, solve problems, and contribute to improving system reliability and performance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with engineering teams, product partners, and other stakeholders.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and continuously develop technical and domain expertise.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or Groovy.
• Experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience with Git or Vela.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a scalable, multi-tenant advertising campaign management platform.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver capabilities for campaign planning and activation.
• Design, develop, and enhance backend services and APIs supporting campaign data management, validation, and lifecycle operations.
• Work with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integrations to enable data exchange between internal marketing systems and downstream activation platforms.
• Contribute to improving platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions.
• Deliver high-quality, reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software while balancing feature delivery with software robustness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Review code and help maintain software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
• Participate in engineering discussions and team ceremonies and deepen understanding of the product, system design, and architecture.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits.

What This Job Offers

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