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Sr Android Engineer
Job Id: R0000423354
The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00
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.
As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist on the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight into application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, and providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.
Join the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest facing Target Android shopping app. This Sr Android Engineer will be working on one of the teams building guest facing features on the Target Flagship Android app
As a Senior Android Software Engineer on the Flagship mobile team you will:
• Own development, testing, and quality of new features in collaboration with product and design partners
• Participates in bi-weekly sprints, retros, and bug bashes to maintain code quality
• Keep abreast of technology trends and advances in mobile technologies
• Research, evaluate, and provide objective feedback on technologies
• Inform innovative design with relevant technology insights
• Develop fully functional prototypes to objectively test against hypotheses
• Be able to produce clear and concise technical deliverables for internal and external use
• Innovate constantly and maintain a technical edge
• Focus on observability, testing, and continuous learning
• Embrace AI-assisted development and Generative AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and developer experience across our engineering teams. You’ll have opportunities to experiment, innovate, and influence how Target engineers build the next generation of retail technology
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
• 5+ years of experience in software design & development
• 3+ years of experience developing apps for Android
• Experience developing in Kotlin, including using Coroutines
• Experience with Jetpack Compose
• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels
• Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, REST APIs, etc)
• Experience performance profiling and tuning consumer facing mobile applications
• Excellent hands-on skills with Android application development tools, including Android Studio and the Android SDK
• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
• Proactively helps drive innovation within the company
• Good understanding of A/B testing and staged rollouts
• Focus on observability, testing, and continuous learning
• Open to learning GraphQL, OpenTelemetery, GenAI
Desired Experience:
• Experience integrating libraries with Gradle and using other third party frameworks tools and SDKs, such as Retrofit, Moshi, and Epoxy
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger, Hilt, or Anvil
• Experience with instrumented UI testing with Espresso
• Experience with continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing
• Experience with authenticated sessions using OAuth and authentication tokens
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 if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
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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. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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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 offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans. Plus, get free 24/7 virtual care and mental health support.
Financial well-being
Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.
Paid time off
Target encourages work-life balance by offering eligible team members vacation time and paid national holidays, sick time and family leave.
Education assistance
Target's industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.
Market-leading pay
Target is a proud pay leader in retail and highly competitive with other large companies, providing equitable and competitive pay for all.
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Get the exclusive team member discount of 10% off plus an added 20% off a variety of food and wellness products.
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