Backend Engineer - Loyalty

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $

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

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.

As an Engineer
, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement.

You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

As an Engineer on the Loyalty Team
, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing software solutions tailored for Loyalty transactions and games. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You will collaborate with product owners, data scientists and other cross‑functional engineering teams to deliver high‑quality software that meets the evolving needs of our business and guests.

You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You contribute to research and proof‑of‑concept and assist with code review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met.

Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both. Your work will directly impact our Guest's experience and contribute to the overall success of our loyalty initiatives.

• CICD:
  Code Pipelines like Drone, Vela, Spinnaker
• Languages, Frameworks and tools like Java, Kotlin, REST, Gradle, Spring Boot, Kotest, Docker
• Front end technologies like React
• Databases like Postgres, Cassandra
• Distributed event streaming platform like Kafka
• Metrics visualizations like Grafana

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

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience, ideally with Java or Kotlin, Postgres and Kafka
• 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…