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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.\nAbout us:\nWorking 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.\nAs 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.\nUse your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. 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Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.\nAbout this opportunity:\nThe Guest Facing Device Engineering team at Target is responsible for managing the ecosystem of 56,000 retail POS endpoints in Target stores. Further, we are rolling out cutting-edge technology with our next generation registers and scales with the architecture to provide a great experience for our guests.\nIn your role as an Engineer on the Guest Facing Device Engineering team, you will be contributing to state-of-the-art next generation retail devices. You will design, build, deploy, support the next generation open-source platform, and innovative device management. Prospective candidates will have experience in software development with an eagerness to learn while embracing the Growth Mindset. Share experiences in an Agile environment, manage software-defined infrastructure, gather story details, and collaborate with partner teams to develop and implement solutions in an iterative manner.\nWe urge Target engineers to participate in learning opportunities such as Hack-a-thons, Engineering events, innovation sprints, and quarterly Demo Days. As an engineer on the Guest Facing Device Engineering team, you will contribute and affect change using a diverse cross-section of the following technologies and skillsets:\nOne or more object-oriented languages such as: Java, Kotlin, Golang, etc.\nDevelopment of scripts with languages such as Python, Bash\nFamiliarity and working knowledge of Spring Boot framework \nREST API design\nWorking knowledge of Linux\nFamiliarity of relational DBs\nUse of source control and SDLC best practices using tools such as GitHub etc.\nUnderstanding of CI-CD tools such as Vela, Drone or Jenkins\nFamiliarity with tools such as Kafka, Telegraf, Kibana, and Grafana\nAs a member of an Agile team, a successful candidate will possess the following traits:\nA motivated, positive, and driven\nAdaptable to change\nActively collaborates in an Agile product driven environment \nHelping to resolve hardware, operational, infrastructure, and application incidents escalated from support teams during on-call rotations \nDrive problem root cause analysis through the operating system and application log investigation\nDevelop automated preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and quickly resolve problems to ensure infrastructure and application stability\nAbout you:\n4-year degree or equivalent experience\n1+ years of software development experience\nDemonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies\nUnderstands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects\nDemonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge\nDemonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language\nUnderstands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain\nKnowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.\nMaintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise\nStays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education\nThis 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.\nBenefits Eligibility\nPlease paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_DAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\nIn compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. 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