Lead Engineer
Target - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Join us as a Lead Engineer
Target is one of the world’s most
recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. But behind the brand
our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation – and right now, we are
up to big things. The Target Technology Team is driving a transformation in
retail, one that will move us from “brick-and-mortar and online” to
“bricks-and-mortar and everywhere else.” Our goal is to deliver Target’s unique
“Expect More. Pay Less.” promise to guests wherever and whenever they shop,
today and tomorrow: in-store, online, on tablets and mobile phones, and in the
retail channels of the future.
You can be a part of developing and
launching new services that power all the channels where Target does and will
do business – in-store, web, tablet, mobile, and future channels. You’ll have
the opportunity to design, develop and support innovative solutions across a
variety of applications, platforms and environments, building tomorrow’s
technologies in Guest Fulfillment space. You’ll put your skills, experience and
passion to work in an entrepreneurial environment where success is rewarded.
We are looking for highly motivated
engineering professionals who can create scalable and seamless multi-channel
experiences without losing the brand we are known for. Individuals
in this role will have opportunities to gain a large breadth of knowledge by
working with experts in the eCommerce, multichannel retail, product management
and software engineering fields.
About This Opportunity
As an engineer, you are a software
developer with an entrepreneurial streak. You will build great products -
ready to do whatever it takes to build scalable guest focused, world class
eCommerce applications for the Engineer. You have good problem solving
skills. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use
them to help you innovate. You have leadership qualities, good judgment
and clear communication skills.
Use your skills, experience and
talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As
an Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
- Lead the design and development of RESTful based software services.
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Champion new and emerging
technologies and drive decision making.
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Establish research and
proof-of-concept initiatives in new and emerging technology spaces.
- Follow software quality process and methodology standards,
including those for design, data quality, code, version control,
defect/change request tracking, documentation, work product review, automated
unit testing and environment management.
- Work on implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment
practices.
- Innovate constantly and maintain the technical edge.
- Build tools for monitoring production environment
and analyze as well as trouble-shoot production incidents within defined
SLAs.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 7 years of software development experience
with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production
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Proficiency in Java and J2EE
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Experience in building highly
scalable distributed systems
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Excellent written communication
skills and ability to document technical content
Desired Qualifications:
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Full stack development experience
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Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate
Framework and Spock for web service development and testing
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Experience with Jenkins, Drone, Chef,
DSL, Gradle and GitHub for CI/CD
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Experience with ELK stack and Grafana
for monitoring
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Experience with RDBMS such as Oracle,
Postgres and non-RDBMS such as Cassandra, MongoDB for data store
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Experience with Kafka and Camel
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Experience in retail industry
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MS in Computer Science or related
technical field
Posted: 30+ days ago
