Lead Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Digital Enablement team at Target. As a Lead Engineer, you will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team building and supporting the platforms, tools, and reliability frameworks that help teams deliver scalable digital experiences.

The pay range for this role is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 per year.

Responsibilities:

• Own the application architecture, ensuring it meets functional and non-functional needs, and identify and drive architectural changes that accelerate delivery and improve reliability and operational efficiency.
• Bring deep and broad engineering expertise, while acting as a force multiplier: setting technical direction, establishing reusable engineering patterns, and guiding partner teams through complex distributed-systems challenges.
• Use automation and best practices to strengthen the stability of Target’s digital ecosystem.
• 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.
• Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level.
• Serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.
• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
• Participate in planning services that have enterprise impact.
• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
• Gather information, data, and input from a wide variety of sources; identify additional resources when appropriate, engage with appropriate stakeholders, and conduct in-depth analysis of information.
• Develop plans and schedules, estimate resource requirements, and define milestones and deliverables.
• Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles.
• Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met.
• Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems.
• Serve as an expert resource in disaster recovery and disaster recovery planning.
• Stay current with Target’s technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment.
• Develop fully attributed data models, including logical, physical, and canonical.
• Influence data standards, policies, and procedures.
• Install, configure, and/or tune data management solutions with minimal guidance.
• Monitor data management solution(s) and identify optimization opportunities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including delivering and supporting production systems through a full development lifecycle.
• Experience leading technical design and architecture for scalable, reliable services, APIs, or developer platforms.
• Strong programming experience in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or comparable languages and frameworks.
• Experience building and operating production-grade APIs, backend services, developer tooling, or platform capabilities for digital web systems.
• 2+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices, including hands-on experience authoring and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerized applications on platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Understanding of web delivery and CDN concepts, including caching, traffic routing, and edge configuration.
• Experience with observability practices, including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing, and using them to improve system reliability and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, influence engineering decisions, and mentor engineers across teams.
• Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.