iOS Engineer

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win.

Pyramid Overview:

Target.com and Mobile translates the in-store experience our guests love to the digital environment. Our Mobile Engineers develop native apps like Cartwheel and Target’s flagship app, which are high-impact and high-visibility assets that are game-changers for literally millions of guests. Here, you’ll get to explore emerging retail and mobile technologies, playing a key role in revolutionary product launches with tech giants like Apple and Google. You’ll be a visionary for the future of Target’s app ecosystem. You’ll have the advantage of Target’s unmatched brand recognition and special marketplace foothold—making us the partner of choice for innovative technologies like indoor mapping, iBeacons and Apple Pay. You’ll help Target evolve by using the latest open source tools and technologies and staying true to strong agile practices. You’ll lend your passion for engineering technologies that fix problems and meet needs guests didn’t even know they had. You’ll work on autonomous teams and incorporate the newest technical practices. You’ll have the chance to perform by writing rock-solid code that stands up to our massive scale. Plus, and perhaps best of all, you’ll have the right balance of self-rule and accountability for how technical products perform.

Team Overview:

As an iOS Engineer on the Flagship mobile team, you will:

• Explore new technologies in the retail and mobile space

• Establish standards and best practices for you and the team to deliver clean, scalable, and maintainable code

• Collaborate with Product and Design to establish and drive the product vision

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 1+ years of experience in software design & development

• 1+ years of experience developing apps for iOS

• Experience developing in Swift and ability to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code.

• In-depth knowledge of native tools and frameworks (e.g., Swift, UIKit, Xcode, Instruments, etc.)

• 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, XML, REST APIs etc.)

• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills

• Strong sense of software architecture and ability to thrive large codebases on large teams

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Position Overview:

• Experience following best practices in developing iOS apps at scale on large, distributed teams, including modular app architecture, frameworks, build pipeline, on-prem and cloud CI/CD, automated testing, observability, code review, static analysis, etc.

• Expertise in Apple development, tools, and frameworks

• Amazing debugging skills with ability to write unit test cases.

• Common iOS architectures (MVC, MVVM, The Composable Architecture)

• Experience with authenticated session using OAuth and authenticated tokens

• Experience with SwiftUI

• Experience developing highly successful apps that enjoy wide scale distribution

• Experience with design/development/use of analytics solutions

• Experience with agile methodology

Know more about us:

Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion