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Engineer
Job Id: R0000399168
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.
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.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Use your technology acumen to 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. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. 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 monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Team Overview:
Our team builds and supports the device management platform that powers Target’s operations across diverse enterprise environments. Our solutions ensure that the devices are always secure, compliant, and optimized for performance. By enabling seamless provisioning, configuration, and real-time device management, we help frontline and corporate teams work more efficiently and effectively. This platform is foundational to driving enterprise-
wide productivity, operational agility, and delivering a consistently exceptional experience to our guests and team members alike.
Position Overview:
We are looking for an Android Engineer to support the development and optimization of Android applications that power Target’s enterprise devices.You’ll contribute to features and enhancements in our custom Mobile Device Management (MDM) agent and other client-side components that help keep devices secure, compliant, and reliable. Working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, you’ll gain hands-on experience
building scalable solutions that directly support business operations across stores, distribution centers, and headquarters. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills while making an impact on tools used daily by thousands of team members.
We are looking for an Android Engineer to support the development and optimization of Android applications that power Target’s enterprise devices.You’ll contribute to features and enhancements in our custom Mobile Device Management (MDM) agent and other client-side components that help keep devices secure, compliant, and reliable. Working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, you’ll gain hands-on experience
building scalable solutions that directly support business operations across stores, distribution centers, and headquarters. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills while making an impact on tools used daily by thousands of team members.
About you
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field—or equivalent experience
1+ year of professional experience in Android development
Strong fundamentals in OOP, design patterns and algorithms.
Strong grasp of Kotlin and core Android SDK components
Familiarity with modern Android architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVI and Clean Architecture.
Foundational understanding of asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines or Flow, with interest in learning reactive patterns (e.g., RxJava) to build responsive and lifecycle-aware Android applications
Understanding of RESTful APIs and networking libraries like Retrofit or OkHttp
Experience with Git and standard build tools (Gradle, Android Studio, Android SDK, Android Debug Bridge (ADB))
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field—or equivalent experience
1+ year of professional experience in Android development
Strong fundamentals in OOP, design patterns and algorithms.
Strong grasp of Kotlin and core Android SDK components
Familiarity with modern Android architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVI and Clean Architecture.
Foundational understanding of asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines or Flow, with interest in learning reactive patterns (e.g., RxJava) to build responsive and lifecycle-aware Android applications
Understanding of RESTful APIs and networking libraries like Retrofit or OkHttp
Experience with Git and standard build tools (Gradle, Android Studio, Android SDK, Android Debug Bridge (ADB))
Familiarity with Jetpack libraries (e.g., ViewModel, LiveData, WorkManager)
Familiar with dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Familiar with dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
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Competitive benefits
We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.
Health and well-being
Target in India (TII) prioritizes our people by offering healthcare support, fitness programs, teleheath benefits (i.e., screenings and consultations) and 24/7 confidential mental well-being telecounseling support.
Financial well-being
Your financial well-being is bright with TII's comprehensive flexible insurance program, National Pension System, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.
Paid time off
TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, casual, bereavement and parental leaves that offer support in all stages of life.
Competitive pay
TII knows our people are everything and proudly provides equitable and competitive pay.
Other benefits
From digitalized cafeteria solutions to transportation services to broadband reimbursement, enjoy special everyday perks.
Creating a culture of joy
We bring out the best in each other every day.
Inclusivity
We value diverse voices and approaches. We act with authenticity and respect. We create equitable experiences for all.
Connection
We build trusted relationships. We collaborate across business functions. We recognize and celebrate progress.
Drive
We do what is right for Target, our team and guests. We deliver results that matter. We continually learn by valuing progress over perfection.
Grow with Target
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