Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain

Target

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $183k
This role $185k
$119k most similar roles pay here $251k

This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $154,450–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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About Target

Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

Target currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 58 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain

Lead Engineer - Stores & Supply Chain serves as a technical anchor for the engineering team supporting retail and fulfillment networks. The role involves designing, developing, and approving end-to-end functionality for product lines while owning application architecture to meet functional and non-functional needs. You will drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development, optimize system capacity, and manage data lifecycle solutions. The work focuses on building scalable distributed systems to power inventory flow, secure checkout, and replenishment optimization. Core technologies include Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Spring Boot, Micronaut, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Testing is performed via JUnit, Spock, and KotlinTest. Infrastructure tools include Kafka for event streaming, Docker, Drone, and Vela for CI/CD, alongside InfluxDB, Grafana, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, RocksDB, and the ELK Stack for monitoring and database management.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and approve end-to-end functionality for product lines, platforms, or infrastructure.
  • Create and own the application architecture to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development and improve service quality.
  • Build scalable, reliable distributed systems to support retail and fulfillment networks.
  • Analyze and optimize system capacity, performance, and operational health.
  • Develop solutions for effective data lifecycle management.
  • Act as a technical anchor and force multiplier to influence the engineering team's output.
  • Partner with data scientists to implement machine learning for demand forecasting and replenishment.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • Candidates must have 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation.
  • Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems is required.
  • Must demonstrate broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks.
  • Ability to design, develop, and approve end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure.
  • Expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
  • Ability to communicate and coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of data lifecycle management solutions is required.

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