Target is a leading retail company that aims to help families discover the joy of everyday life. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to support Roundel Media Studio, Target's self-service ad campaign management platform, by delivering robust software components and solving engineering problems. The role involves participating in the design and architecture of the product while ensuring high-quality software delivery and operational reliability.
Responsibilities
- Support Roundel Media Studio, Target’s self-service ad campaign management platform for external advertisers
- Deliver the engineering that powers the product
- Develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components
- Demonstrate expertise by solving engineering problems
- Maintain the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of software components
- Handle operational issues with little or no oversight
- Review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team
- Learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both
- Provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services
- Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs
- Deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with guidance
- Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts
- Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitor systems capacity with minimal assistance
- Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics
- Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations
Skills
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of software development experience
- Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
- Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
- Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
- Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
- Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
- Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them
- Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Experience with Java/J2EE, REST API development
- Experience developing microservices/application frameworks (Spring Boot), mono repo is preferred
- Experience with NoSQL DB or relational DB
- Experience with development testing frameworks (Junit/Mockito)
- Experience with open-source logging and reporting solutions: Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana/Grafana
- Knowledge of Messaging and Event Systems such as Kafka is a plus
- Strong verbal, presentation, and written communications skills for technical audiences
- Experience working on devops model
- Good interpersonal, problem solving, reasoning and analytical skills
- Experience with CI/CD technologies
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
Company Overview
Target is a retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and others. It was founded in 1962, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.target.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Target has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.