Lead Android Engineer

The pay range is $111,200.00 - $200,200.00

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 Lead Engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”.

Join the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest facing Target Android and iOS shopping app. 

As a Lead Android Engineer on the Flagship mobile team you will: 

• Develop clean, well-tested native Android code to deliver functionality that meets business objectives 

• Coach and mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices 

• Analyze requirements and design 

• Work closely with partner teams such as UX, Product and back end as needed  

• Perform complex engineering tasks independently as well as collaboratively 

• Evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs 

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 
• 7+ years of experience in software design & development

• 4+ years of experience developing apps for Android 

• Experience developing in Kotlin, including using coroutines
• 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

• Experience mentoring and coaching an engineering team by providing feedback and technical direction
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders 
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise 
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education 

Desired Expereince: 

• Experience with Jetpack Compose

• Experience integrating libraries with Gradle and using other third party frameworks tools and SDKs, such as Retrofit, Moshi, and Epoxy

• 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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.