Senior Software Engineer — Developer Platform

Target • Brooklyn Park, NC

45d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. You'll work on a platform used by thousands of engineers: a project generation system that scaffolds fully configured codebases in seconds, with approved patterns, security standards, and platform integrations built in. The platform you build and support powers the developer experience, enabling teams to move faster and focus on features that matter, not boilerplate. You'll work on a full-stack system built across Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript. The work ranges from designing the abstractions that make new infrastructure integrations seamless, to building the AI-native agent interfaces that let engineers scaffold projects directly from their IDE or coding assistant tools. The platform is growing fast. You'll have real ownership over technical decisions and contribute to a roadmap that's expanding into new infrastructure domains, AI-assisted developer workflows, and deeper integrations across a large-scale engineering organization.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend fundamentals — proficient in JVM languages (Kotlin/Java)
• Experience designing and shipping production REST APIs
• PostgreSQL or other relational database experience
• Comfort navigating and contributing to distributed, multi-service codebases
• Writes and organizes code across multiple languages, including distributed programming, with understanding of different frameworks and paradigms
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure solutions (high throughput, low latency)
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and developer platform tooling
• Strong critical thinking skills — navigates ambiguity with confidence, asks the right questions, identifies what's needed to move work forward
• Clearly communicates technical concepts to partners and teammates
• Designs testing methods and resolves complex technical issues with minimal assistance
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Nice To Haves

• React/TypeScript frontend experience
• Python experience
• Experience with AI tooling, LLMs, or the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Familiarity with template engines (Jinja2, Cookiecutter, or similar)
• Background in developer experience, internal tooling, or platform engineering

Responsibilities

• Serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product.
• Help develop and gain insight in the application architecture.
• Distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation.
• Show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems.
• Apply skills in developing the product.
• Design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation.
• Show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues.
• Leverage expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
• Apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.
• Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership.
• Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
• Manage total product, financials and forecasting.
• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.
• Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions.
• Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met.
• Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues.
• Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree