Lead Engineer - Food Replenishment Transformation

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN • 12h ago

The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.?Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.?Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits .

About Us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here (https://corporate.target.com/about) .

The Lead Engineer, Food Replenishment Transformation will join a newly formed engineering team on a mission to modernize how food inventory is replenished across Target's supply chain. Today, core food replenishment logic lives in complex mainframe systems that constrain agility, transparency, and cost efficiency. These jobs determine how much inventory should move, and from where. This team is responsible for discovering, rebuilding, and operationalizing that logic on a modern, distributed platform.

Replacing these legacy processes with real-time, service-based systems will reduce mainframe dependencies and associated costs, while improving system flexibility and speed of change. Food is a key driver of guest traffic, and our work directly supports that part of the business by improving how food items are moved between supply chain nodes. Engineers on the team build and manage services that integrate with multiple upstream systems to determine the ideal inventory of food items.

As a Lead Engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You lead by mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration.

What You'll Do

Design and evolve scalable, distributed systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and resilience

Drive architectural decision-making that balances speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and quality

Lead incident response and root cause analysis for production issues; take ownership of service reliability and observability

Influence technical strategy and product roadmaps through close collaboration with product managers, stakeholders, and other engineering leaders

Ensure security best practices and performance optimizations are integrated throughout the system lifecycle

Mentor and coach engineers across the team, cultivating future technical leaders

Promote a culture of learning, inclusion, and engineering excellence

Actively participate in code and design reviews, ensuring high standards across the codebase and architecture

Engage in enterprise-wide initiatives that improve engineering practices, platforms, or capabilities

Core Technologies:

Languages: Kotlin

Runtimes/Frameworks: Frameworkless

Event Streaming: Kafka

Datastores: Postgres, RocksDB

Legacy Integration: Mainframe familiarity a plus

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

4 year degree or equivalent experience

7+ years of software development experience with at least one end-to-end product delivery

Strong expertise in designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures

Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and open-source frameworks.

Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate with project team, partners, and stakeholders

Skilled in optimizing systems capacity, performance, and operational health

Maintains deep expertise while staying current with emerging technologies through formal and self-directed training

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here (https://corporate.target.com/about/locations/Target-in-the-Twin-Cities) if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.

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