Sr. API Engineer

Sr. API Engineer
This position will be based Downtown Minneapolis.

Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation – and right now, we are up to big things. The Target Technology Team is driving a transformation in retail, one that will move us from “ and online” to “ and everywhere else.” Our goal is to deliver Target’s unique “Expect More. Pay Less.” promise to guests wherever and whenever they shop, today and tomorrow: in-store, online, on tablets and mobile phones, and in the retail channels of the future.

You can be a part of developing and launching new services that power all the channels where Target does and will do business. You’ll have the opportunity to design, develop and support innovative solutions across a variety of applications, platforms and environments, building tomorrow’s technologies in Search, Browse, Product Info, Promotions, Content and Checkout. You’ll put your skills, experience and passion to work in an entrepreneurial environment where success is rewarded.

We are looking for highly motivated engineering professionals who can connect the in-store experience to the digital environment by creating scalable and seamless multi-channel experiences without losing the brand we are known for. Individuals in this role will have opportunities to gain a large breadth of knowledge by working with experts in the eCommerce, multichannel retail, product management and software engineering fields.

As an engineer, you are a software developer with an entrepreneurial streak. You will build great products - ready to do whatever it takes to build scalable guest focused, world class eCommerce applications. You like resolving complex business problems and find innovative solutions. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use them to help you innovate. You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills and a track record of delivering great products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build world-class cloud based API’s to enable faster innovation, better performance and better scalibilty for industry leading omni-channel experiences for our guests
• Look across the team to drive innovation and improve our platform and how we deliver APIs
• Design and implement enhancements to our platform
• Assess and help drive adoption of new technologies within the team and across Target
• Refine and mature our continuous integration pipeline
• Deliver code in a dev ops environment
• Evangelize APIs and best practices for building/consuming APIs
• Build prototypes to prove out concepts
• Interface with infrastructure partners to further our API platform

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production. Experience in building/implementing high performance & scalable server-side applications
• Experience with Node.js, express.js, Angular.js, JavaScript
• Experience with Java, Groovy, Spring, Grails- JVM language and framework
• Experience with Linux or Unix operating systems including Unix shell and scripting
• RESTful interfaces including consuming and implementing JSON based services
• Experience in Messaging and Job Queuing with open source technologies like Redis, Kafka, Camel, RabbitMQ, or others
• Source Control Experiences, preferable experience with Git
• Experience consuming APIs in both a mobile application and web-based capacity
• Experience deploying and supporting an application on cloud-based infrastructure
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
• Team attitude
• Strong verbal and written communication skills – able to document and share design and specifications with team members and partners.

Desired Qualifications:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent
• eCommerce experience with a track record of innovation
• Contribute back to the Open Source community is desirable
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)