Backend Engineer Java/Kotlin

Tech Overview:

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses, they experience the impact of Targets investments in technology and innovation. Were the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guestsand we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.

Pyramid Overview:

and Mobile translates the in-store experience our guests love to the digital environment. Our Mobile Engineers develop native apps like Cartwheel and Targets flagship app, which are high-impact and high-visibility assets that are game-changers for literally millions of guests. Here, youll get to explore emerging retail and mobile technologies, playing a key role in revolutionary product launches with tech giants like Apple and Google. Youll be a visionary for the future of Targets app ecosystem. Youll have the advantage of Targets unmatched brand recognition and special marketplace footholdmaking us the partner of choice for innovative technologies like indoor mapping, iBeacons and Apple Pay. Youll help Target evolve by using the latest open source tools and technologies and staying true to strong agile practices. Youll lend your passion for engineering technologies that fix problems and meet needs guests didnt even know they had. Youll work on autonomous teams and incorporate the newest technical practices. Youll have the chance to perform by writing rock-solid code that stands up to our massive scale. Plus, and perhaps best of all, youll have the right balance of self-rule and accountability for how technical products perform.

Team Overview:

We are dedicated to ensuring a seamless and efficient checkout experience for Guests shopping on our digital channels, including web and mobile apps. Our team plays a crucial role in the overall shopping journey, focusing on the final and most critical steps of the purchase process. We are responsible formanaging the seamless payments experience during Checkout, from the moment a Guest adds a payment to their cart to the final purchase confirmation. Our goal is to provide a smooth, secure, and user-friendly checkout process that enhances customer satisfaction and drives conversions. Ourteam is cross-geo located,with members driving different features and collaborating from both India and the US. This diverse setup allows us to leverage a wide range of expertise and perspectives, fostering innovative solutions and effective problem-solving. As part of theDigital Payments team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions to continuously improve the Checkout experience. Our collaborative and dynamic environment encourages creative problem-solving and the sharing of ideas to meet the evolving needs of our Guests.

Position Overview:

• Able to implement new features/fixes within the current framework with little or no direction. Able to troubleshoot problems and devise solutions for root cause.
• Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
• Has advanced skills around technology for their area. Examples may include: computing topics, threading models, performance considerations, caching, database indexing, operating system internals, networking, infrastructure systems and operations.
• Researches the best design and new technologies for given problem. Evaluates technologies and documents decision making.
• Understands how the solution is deployed, examples may include: VMs, containers, clustering, load balancing, DNS, networking, and scalability.
• Recommends changes to internal processes and procedures when deficiencies are observed.
• Articulates the value of a technology.
• Approaches all engineering work with a security lens and actively looks for security vulnerabilities within code/infrastructure architecture when providing peer reviews.
• Contributes to open source where applicable.
• Helps tune and change the observability on their team accordingly. Is aware of the operational data for their teams domain and uses it as a basis for suggesting stability and performance improvements.

About You:

• Experience: 2 years - 4 years
• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication skills with both business partners and other engineering teams
• Familiar with Agile principles and possess a team attitude
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
• Experience engineering applications for the JVM. Java or Kotlin experience is definitely needed.
• Experience in micro services, Spring Boot, and event driven architecture
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to building high-performance scalable APIs is a plus.
• Knowledge of NoSQL technologies Cassandra, Elastic search, MongoDB is a plus
• Good at writing unit and functional tests and test-driven development