# Senior Software Engineer — Developer Platform

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $98,000.00 - $176,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Platform team. You will 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 will work on a full-stack system built across Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript along with defining AI agents and skills.

The work ranges from designing the abstractions that make new infrastructure integrations seamless, to building the AI-native agent interfaces that let engineers generate projects directly from their IDEs or coding assistant tools.

**Responsibilities**

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Strong backend fundamentals. Proficient in JVM languages (Kotlin/Java)

- Experience designing and shipping production REST APIs

- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and developer platform tooling

- PostgreSQL or other relational database experience

- Comfort navigating and contributing to distributed, multi-service codebases

- Strong critical thinking skills. You ask the right questions, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and know how to identify the information you need to move work forward

**Nice to Have**

- 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

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short term disability

- Long term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- REST APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- PostgreSQL
- distributed systems
- critical thinking

### Nice to have
- React
- TypeScript
- Python
- AI tooling
- LLMs
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- template engines
- developer experience

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