Principal iOS Engineer - Platform and Enablement.

The pay range is $144,400.00 - $259,900.00

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 Principal Engineer you set the strategy for software development and/or infrastructure engineering at Target. You set the direction for how software and infrastructure engineering efforts will be designed, developed, and operationalized across multiple portfolios and drives adoption across TTS. You lead and approve software and infrastructure engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements. You are a thought leader and mentor for internal and external technical talent and actively contribute to the external technical community.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication through POCs and prototypes. Collaborate with other engineers and teams in setting technical direction across platform and drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/decisions to the engineering team. Participate in procurement specifications, installation, and maintenance of Target systems. Lead designing and building the Target platform API with deep focus on non-functional requirement including scalability, availability, performance, etc. while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Work with engineering leaders to build a high performing engineering team and provide technical leadership, coaching, motivation and participate in the selection of technical talent.

This position is for the iOS Platform team within Flagship Mobile Apps at Target. As a team, we enjoy tackling big problems in a large and complex iOS codebase. We are continually assessing new iOS technologies and building on our vision for keeping Target’s iOS 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 iOS engineers can do their job more effectively due to our contributions.

As a Principal iOS Engineer on the Flagship Platform mobile team, you will: 

• Develop clean, well-tested native iOS code to deliver functionality that meets business objectives 

• Coach and mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices 

• Drive technology and process improvements to our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines.

• Be forward thinking in identifying and analyzing trends in the mobile app and app platform space

• Partner with leaders, and engineers across the entire Flagship mobile domain

• Manage complex cross-team coordination and dependencies

• Evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs

• Identify opportunities to perform or lead POC/POT with our teams

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

About you:
• Passion for continuous learning to maintain thorough knowledge of technical domains along with staying current in latest technologies