Engineer, Tax Technology

About the Role

As an Engineer on the Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team, you will contribute to critical applications and services within Target’s Tax Technology landscape. You will work with high-volume transactional systems, complex data flows, third-party tax platforms, and enterprise integrations, while helping modernize existing applications and architecture.

Your Impact

• Partner with Tax, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems provide timely, complete, accurate, and reliable tax information.
• Improve resiliency and scalability, incorporate appropriate controls, and make technology decisions with lifecycle management and total cost of ownership in mind.
• Apply and continue to build engineering skills by solving technical problems and delivering high-quality software.
• Balance the delivery of new features with writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
• Deepen understanding of product, system design, and architecture while actively participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical specialist delivering engineering that powers the product.
• Develop keen insight into technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components.
• Solve engineering problems, demonstrating expertise.
• Balance speed of delivering new features with the robustness of implemented software components.
• Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Actively review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy across the team.
• Learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence them.

Technology Environment

Relevant experience with the following technologies is recommended; experience with comparable enterprise technologies is also valuable:

• Backend: Java, Groovy, Kotlin
• Frameworks: Spring Boot
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Data and Integration: Kafka
• CI/CD: Git, Vela, Ansible

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java/Kotlin
• Strong understanding of application architecture, system design, distributed programming, data structures, event-driven architectures, and modern engineering practices
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and the ability to evaluate and apply them appropriately.
• Commitment to maintaining technical and domain knowledge through formal training and self-directed education.

Nice To Have

• Front-end experience with technologies such as React and Redux.

Work Arrangement

• This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement.
• This means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually, depending upon what your role, team, and tasks require.
• Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.