Full Time Minnesota IT Job
Downtown Minneapolis
Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation – and right now, we are up to big things. The Target Technology Team is driving a transformation in retail, one that will move us from “brick-and-mortar and online” to “bricks-and-mortar and everywhere else.” Our goal is to deliver Target’s unique “Expect More. Pay Less.” promise to guests wherever and whenever they shop, today and tomorrow: in-store, online, on tablets and mobile phones, and in the retail channels of the future.
You can be a part of developing and launching new services that power all the channels where Target does and will do business – in-store, web, tablet, mobile, and future channels. You’ll have the opportunity to design, develop and support innovative solutions across a variety of applications, platforms and environments, building tomorrow’s technologies in Search, Browse, Product Info, Promotions, Content and Checkout. You’ll put your skills, experience and passion to work in an entrepreneurial environment where success is rewarded.
We are looking for highly motivated engineering professionals who can connect the in-store experience to the digital environment by creating scalable and seamless multi-channel experiences without losing the brand we are known for. Individuals in this role will have opportunities to gain a large breadth of knowledge by working with experts in the eCommerce, multichannel retail, product management and software engineering fields.
Use your skills, experience and creativity to bring groundbreaking thinking and a visionary approach to our high performance team. As a Mobile Engineer you will:
- Keep abreast of technology trends and advances in mobile
- Research, evaluate and provide objective feedback on technologies
- Inform innovation design with relevant technology insights
- Develop fully functional prototypes to objectively test against hypotheses
- Be able to produce clear and concise technical deliverables for internal and external use
- Unit test code and create automated test scripts
- Work closely with other engineers and partners to ensure development meets business needs
- Follow industry standard agile software design methodology for development and technical documentation
- Research related products and make necessary software recommendations.
- Innovate constantly and maintain the technical edge
Minimum Qualifications:
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BS degree in computer science or equivalent
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4+ years of experience in software design & development
- 3+ years of experience developing apps for iOS and/or Android
- Experience with distributing mobile applications via enterprise channels and/or public app stores
- Excellent knowledge of working with dynamic data using services (e.g., JSON, XML, REST APIs etc)
- Experience performance profiling and tuning consumer facing mobile applications
- Experience with cross platform development for iOS and/or Android applications
- Excellent hands on skills with iOS, Android, Objective-C, SDKs, NDKs and development tools such as Eclipse and emulators
- Heroic get-it-done self-starter attitude
- Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills
- Proactively helps drive innovation within the company
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience developing highly interactive mobile apps with variety of media such as animation, green screen video etc., especially games
- Experience developing highly successful apps that enjoy wide scale distribution
- Experience building native apps and hybrid apps
- Skills and experience with Computer Vision, Unity, Augmented/Virtual reality, OpenGL
- Experience design/development/use of analytics and tracking solutions (e.g., Flurry, Google Analytics)
- Good understanding of timeline animation techniques and code animation techniques
- Experience developing interactive user interfaces utilizing HTML5, JavaScript & CSS
- Experience with agile methodology
Primary Location
United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis
About Target
From our Minneapolis-based headquarters to over 1,800 stores and more than 35 distribution centers across the U.S. and Canada, Target offers a world of possibilities in an environment that will encourage you to innovate and contribute ideas. Join a company that’s always moving forward to what’s next. Be a part of a team that has revolutionized retail, championed design, and volunteered thousands of hours giving back to their communities. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit through community grants and programs; today, that giving equals more than $4 million a week.
Benefits
Eligible team members will receive one of the best earnings packages anywhere, including competitive pay, all-around insurance coverage, 401(k), flexible scheduling, training and development and many other perks and benefits. Target is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and a drug-free workplace.
To apply click Android Mobile Engineer\Sr. Engineer Cartwheel (Digital Engineer)
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