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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain

Target Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$132,000 - $238,000 per year

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Description

The Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain role at Target involves building applications and technology that power the company's extensive retail and fulfillment network. The successful candidate will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team, creating and owning the application architecture that best serves the product.

Responsibilities:

  • Create, own, and be responsible for the application architecture
  • Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service
  • Demonstrate broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks
  • Design, develop, and approve end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
  • Communicate and coordinate with project team, partners, and stakeholders

Requirements:

  • 4-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
  • Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities
  • Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

Core Technologies:

  • Backend Languages & Frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Spring Boot, Micronaut
  • Frontend Languages & Frameworks: React, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Testing: JUnit, Spock, KotlinTest
  • Event Streaming: Kafka
  • CI/CD: Docker, Drone, Vela
  • Metrics & Monitoring: InfluxDB, Grafana
  • Databases: Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, RocksDB, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch (ELK Stack)

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

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