Lead Android Engineer - Mobile Platform

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. 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.

Flagship Mobile Apps:

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

Android Platform Team:

This position is for the Android Platform team within Flagship Mobile Apps at Target. As a team, we enjoy tackling big problems in a large and complex Android codebase. We are continually assessing new Android technologies and building on our vision for keeping Target’s Android app stable, fast, and a joy for others to code in. We love building things for other engineers, and we get joy in knowing other Android engineers can do their job more effectively due to our contributions. If any of this excites you, we would love to have you join us! 

As a Lead Android Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will: 

• Build and maintain developer tools to help our feature teams work effectively

• Develop libraries and foundations in areas such as build tools, testing, analytics, networking, and logging

• Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines

• Provide high level tooling support to feature team engineers during work hours

• Develop clean, well-tested code to deliver functionality that meets the broader engineering team’s needs

• Help advance our architecture and abstractions, allowing our code to continue to scale and empowering feature teams to deliver with ever increasing autonomy

• Solicit feedback from the development team to help drive a great overall developer experience

• Mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices for Android apps

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience 

• 7+ years of experience in software design & development 

• 4+ years of experience developing apps for Android 

• Experience developing in Kotlin (Kotlin standard functions, coroutines, data classes, etc.) 

• Experience with test-driven development and software test automation 

• Excellent debugging, performance and optimization skills (Profiling, Perfetto, benchmarking, heap analysis)

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

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

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

Desired Experience:

If you have experience with any of the following, it’s a bonus, but not required for the job. If working on a team that does these things and getting to learn them on the job sounds exciting, that is great too! 

• Expertise in Android development, tools, and frameworks

• Experience with build systems on highly modularized apps (Gradle, custom plugins) 

• Continuous delivery in mobile, including Test- or Behavior-Driven Design, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing

• Static and dynamic analyzers (Android lint, ktlint, custom lint rules) 

• Code generation (annotation processors, Kotlin compiler plugins) 

• Dependency injection (Dagger and Hilt) 

• Common Android architectures (MVVM) 

• Reactive Programming (RxJava or Kotlin Flow)

• Experience with Jetpack Compose and building Design Systems libraries 

• Integrating with third party frameworks, tools, and SDKs, such as Retrofit, OkHttp, Moshi, and Coil 

• Experience with authenticated session using OAuth

• Accessibility experience 

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location 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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected].

Application deadline is : 10/17/2024