Backend Engineer - Roundel

Target is a leading retail company that aims to help families discover the joy of everyday life. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to support Roundel Media Studio, Target's self-service ad campaign management platform, by delivering robust software components and solving engineering problems. The role involves participating in the design and architecture of the product while ensuring high-quality software delivery and operational reliability.

Responsibilities

• Support Roundel Media Studio, Target’s self-service ad campaign management platform for external advertisers
• Deliver the engineering that powers the product
• Develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components
• Demonstrate expertise by solving engineering problems
• Maintain the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of software components
• Handle operational issues with little or no oversight
• Review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team
• Learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both
• 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
• Deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with guidance
• 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 monitor systems capacity with minimal assistance
• Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics
• Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations

Skills

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience
• 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 chosen programming language and how to apply them
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Experience with Java/J2EE, REST API development
• Experience developing microservices/application frameworks (Spring Boot), mono repo is preferred
• Experience with NoSQL DB or relational DB
• Experience with development testing frameworks (Junit/Mockito)
• Experience with open-source logging and reporting solutions: Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana/Grafana
• Knowledge of Messaging and Event Systems such as Kafka is a plus
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communications skills for technical audiences
• Experience working on devops model
• Good interpersonal, problem solving, reasoning and analytical skills
• Experience with CI/CD technologies

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

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