Sr Back End Engineer - Assortment Planning Tech Platform
TargetMinnesota, United States
Posted February 5, 2026
98000 - 176000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. For more information, visit corporate.target.com. Beware of Hiring Scams: Target will never ask you to submit personal information via a text message for a position. Target will only ask you to apply for positions through corporate.target.com/careers, or Workday, our applicant tracking system.
Job Description
The Sr Back End Engineer - Assortment Planning Tech Platform is responsible for developing and gaining insight in the application architecture, applying software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems, and influencing the implementation. As a specialist in the engineering team, the candidate will help develop the product, design and implement the architecture, and provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. The position requires a 4-year degree or equivalent experience and 5+ years of software development experience.
Requirements
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests technologies
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
- Clearly communicates agile concepts to partners within product team
- Possesses working knowledge of transaction codes/master data used within specific domain and participates in building custom solutions in the package
- Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
- Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
- Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency).
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Medical
- Vision
- Dental
- Life insurance