About You: 4-year degree or equivalent experience. 5+ years of software development experience, with at least one full-cycle implementation. Strong domain-specific knowledge of Target’s technology capabilities, key competitors’ products, and differentiating features. Proficiency in Java and Python. Experience with PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, and object storage platforms such as S3 or similar. Hands-on experience with modern LLM ecosystems, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Gemini, and similar platforms. Experience productionizing Generative AI capabilities. Strong knowledge of emerging Generative AI patterns, frameworks, and use cases, including: LangGraph, LangChain, Google GenAI, or similar frameworks. Context engineering, RAG, and Agentic AI. Experience designing scalable and reliable systems with strong awareness of performance, cost, and operational health. Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to lead through influence across teams and partners. Experience building highly scalable distributed systems. Broad and deep expertise in multiple programming languages and frameworks, including open-source technologies. Ability to design, develop, and approve end-to-end functionality for a product line, platform, or infrastructure. Nice to Have Exposure the UI development using react and distributed event streaming platform like Kafka

About Target

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.