About the Role

At Target Tech, engineering is central to everything we do: bringing our ideas to life and into the lives of our users. As Lead Engineer Android, you will be an integral player in the Target’s Flagship app team based in Bangalore, India. With knowledge of the general mobile landscape, current user trends and preferences, and emerging technologies within the mobile engineering space, you will work alongside the product management team and cross-functional teams (Product Engineer, DevOps, Data, UX, Business, etc.) to develop robust, well-designed mobile apps. What you do every day will have an impact on millions of users using Target’s mobile apps.

As part of this team, you will be building mobile solutions for Target’s Loyalty program (Circles & RedCard), Deals and Discovery, Gift Registry, Order history and tracking, and many more spaces on Target’s Flagship App. As part of this team, you will be always on latest tech stack. Our teams are already on Jetpack Compose and Couroutine, Hilt etc. with a great architecture fueling the growth and stability of our apps.

Target’s Flagship App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.target.ui&pli=1

What You Will Do

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 provide guidance on coding and design best practices 

• Analysis of requirements and design 

• Work closely with partner teams - QA, UX, A11Y, Product - as needed  

• Perform complex engineering tasks independently as well as collaboratively 

• Manage complex cross-team coordination and dependencies 

• 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.

What You Will Need

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience 

• 8+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation 

• 4+ years of experience developing apps for Android 

• Experience developing in Kotlin

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features 

• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in Java/Kotlin and frameworks. Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure 

• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders 

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health 

• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise 

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

*Desired Requirements: *

• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels 

• Experience with integrating calls to backend services (REST or GraphQL, using JSON etc.) 

• Excellent hands-on skills with Android application development tools, including Android Studio, Android SDK and ADT 

• Experience integrating with third party frameworks tools and SDKs, such as Retrofit, OKHttp, Moshi and Glide 

• Experience working with the following technologies: 

        ○Reactive Programming (ideally via RxJava or Coroutines) 

        ○ Dependency injection (ideally via Dagger or Hilt) 

        ○ Android architecture components (ideally MVVM experience) 

        ○ Experience with multiple levels of users (anonymous v authenticated) 

        ○ Experience with Accessibility 

        ○ Experience with continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation, and functional testing. 

About Target

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.  

Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Tech is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.

Join the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest facing Target Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.target.ui&pli=1) and iOS shopping App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/target/id297430070) .