Lead iOS Engineer – Flagship Mobile App

Target • Brooklyn Park, NC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team supporting a product. You create, own, and are responsible for application architecture that meets the product’s functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes that accelerate feature development or improve quality of service. You bring deep and broad engineering skills and influence the wider team as a force multiplier.

The Fulfillment team builds mobile experiences that help guests shop for the items they need and complete orders with confidence. In this role, you will shape the Reorder and Buy It Again experience in Target’s flagship shopping app, helping guests find previously purchased products and shop for them again. You will partner with Product, UX, backend, analytics, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, intuitive features.

The role is hybrid/flex, with work performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ location in Minnesota and virtually, depending on the role, team, tasks, and business needs. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Core responsibilities may change due to business needs.

Requirements

• A four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of software development experience, including at least one full-cycle implementation.
• At least 4 years of experience developing iOS apps.
• Deep experience with Swift and modern iOS development, including SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Xcode, and Instruments.
• Experience following best practices for developing iOS apps at scale on large, distributed teams, including modular app architecture, frameworks, build pipelines, on-premises and cloud CI/CD, automated testing, observability, code review, and static analysis.
• Deep expertise in Apple development, tools, and frameworks.
• Experience with authenticated sessions using OAuth and authentication tokens.
• Experience developing highly successful apps with wide-scale distribution.
• Experience with the design, development, or use of analytics solutions.
• Experience with agile methodology.
• Experience with AI-assisted coding and developer productivity tools.
• Experience with test-driven development and software test automation.
• Excellent debugging, performance, and optimization skills.
• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services such as JSON and REST APIs.
• Experience distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise and stays current with evolving technologies through formal training and self-directed education.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of native iOS features for the Reorder and Buy It Again experience.
• Develop clean, scalable, and well-tested Swift code using modern iOS frameworks and patterns, including SwiftUI and The Composable Architecture (TCA).
• Own technical designs and architectural decisions, balancing guest needs, business objectives, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
• Drive engineering work from discovery and requirements through implementation, testing, release, and ongoing support.
• Coach and mentor engineers, improving code, design, testing, and technical decision-making across the team.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, backend, analytics, and partner engineering teams to deliver cohesive guest experiences.
• Manage complex cross-team coordination, technical dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Evaluate engineering solutions and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve app architecture, developer productivity, observability, and quality of service.
• Use instrumentation and analytics to understand feature performance and inform future improvements.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and dependents may have access to medical, vision, dental, and life insurance, among other comprehensive health benefits and programs.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.

What This Job Offers

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