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.
Target Tech builds secure, scalable and reliable technology solutions that power critical business capabilities across the enterprise.
About the team
The Enterprise Token Vault Exchange (TVX) platform helps power secure payment and identity experiences across Target stores, Target.com and other enterprise channels. By enabling tokenization, secure token storage and controlled exchange of sensitive payment and PII data, TVX allows teams to use protected data safely in the flows that support guest purchases, order processing and related business operations. The team builds high-throughput, resilient applications with strong security controls and compliance standards so critical guest and business experiences remain secure, reliable and scalable.
About the job
As an Engineer, Full Stack on the TVX team, you will help build the applications and services that support secure payment and identity flows used across stores and digital channels. You will work across backend services and web applications that make token capabilities easier to integrate, operate and support, partnering with engineers, product and security teams to deliver scalable solutions. This role is ideal for an engineer with prior industry experience who enjoys hands-on development and wants to work on technology that directly supports how Target serves guests in stores and on Target.com.
Core responsibilities
· Design, build, test and maintain Java and Spring Boot services that enable tokenization, secure storage and exchange of payment and PII data.
· Build and enhance web applications and user interfaces using TypeScript, React and modern frontend development practices.
· Implement secure-by-default patterns across services and applications, including authentication, authorization, API security and service-to-service security.
· Collaborate with engineers, product and security partners to translate business and platform requirements into scalable technical solutions.
· Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code, and participate in code reviews and design discussions.
· Support production applications by troubleshooting issues, improving observability and helping improve reliability and performance.
· Contribute to CI/CD, automation and developer experience improvements that reduce operational toil and improve delivery speed.
· Continuously learn and apply new technologies, tools and engineering practices that improve team effectiveness.
Required qualifications
· 2+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on experience building production applications with Java and Spring Boot.
· Experience with full-stack development, including building web applications using JavaScript or TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
· Understanding of REST APIs, object-oriented programming, data structures and software testing practices.
· Familiarity with SQL and ability to write queries for troubleshooting and analysis.
· Understanding of secure application development concepts, including authentication and authorization.
· Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
· Effective communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.
Preferred qualifications
· Experience with Spring Security and implementing service-level or API-level security controls.
· Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures or messaging platforms.
· Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated build and deployment tools.
· Working knowledge of Linux environments and application troubleshooting.
· Familiarity with observability tooling, logging, monitoring and performance analysis.
· Exposure to certificates, PKI concepts, TLS, keystores or truststores.
· Experience working in regulated environments or with secure engineering practices such as PCI-related controls.
· Experience with Python or scripting for automation and tooling.
What success looks like
· Secure, reliable features and services shipped with strong code quality and test coverage.
· Applications and APIs that make token services easier to integrate, operate and support across payment and identity flows used in stores and on Target.com.
· Steady contribution to team delivery through solid engineering execution, collaboration and operational ownership.
Improved automation, observability and maintainability across the platform