Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain

Target

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary: $132,000–$238,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 72 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, Stores & Supply Chain

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The Lead Engineer - Stores & Supply Chain serves as a technical anchor for the engineering team supporting the retail and fulfillment network. You will build applications and technology to power stores, warehouses, and inventory flow, ensuring fast checkouts and seamless operations. Responsibilities include creating and owning application architecture, driving architectural changes to accelerate feature development, and designing end-to-end functionality for platforms or infrastructure. You will optimize system capacity, performance, and operational health while managing data lifecycle solutions. The role requires expertise in Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Spring Boot, Micronaut, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript. You will utilize tools such as Kafka, Docker, Drone, Vela, InfluxDB, Grafana, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, RocksDB, and the ELK Stack to solve complex problems in demand forecasting and replenishment.

Skills

Java Kotlin Groovy Spring Boot Micronaut React JavaScript TypeScript JUnit Spock KotlinTest Kafka Docker Drone Vela InfluxDB Grafana Cassandra MongoDB RocksDB Elasticsearch ELK Stack CI/CD Distributed Systems Machine Learning

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 product needs.
Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development and improve service quality.
Analyze and optimize system capacity, performance, and overall operational health.
Build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems for retail and fulfillment networks.
Develop solutions to foster effective data lifecycle management.
Partner with data scientists to leverage machine learning for demand forecasting and replenishment.
Maintain deep technical knowledge of backend languages, frontend frameworks, and event streaming technologies.

What we're looking for

A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation is required.
Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems is required.
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.
Demonstrate expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health.
Communicate and coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders.
Maintain deep technical knowledge and stay current with evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education.