Engineer - Tax Technology

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $135,700.00

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 .

As an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

 

About Tax Technology:

The Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team builds, scales, and maintains the technology that enables Target to accurately calculate, manage, report, and comply with tax and fee obligations across the enterprise. We process taxes and fees across Target's sales channels, supporting high transaction volumes and complex data across stores, digital, procurement, finance, and other enterprise systems.

 

For every item scanned or added to a cart within the Target ecosystem, our technology helps determine the appropriate taxes and fees based on the item and applicable jurisdiction. Our capabilities support:

• Item taxability, tax rates, and fees across Target's sales channels
• Sales and Use Tax compliance, reporting, and audit defense
• Guest tax-exempt status and associated compliance obligations
• Tax requirements for indirect procurement
• Property and Income Tax processes, including fixed asset data
• Centralized Tax data and reporting capabilities and tax technology needs for key enterprise initiatives

Your impact:

As an Engineer on the Taxes, Fees & Finance Enablement team, you will contribute to critical applications and services across Target’s Tax Technology landscape. You will work with high-volume transactional systems, complex data flows, third-party tax platforms, and enterprise integrations while helping modernize existing applications and architecture.

You will partner with Tax, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure our systems provide timely, complete, accurate, and reliable tax information. You will help improve resiliency and scalability, incorporate appropriate controls, and make technology decisions with lifecycle management and total cost of ownership in mind.

You will apply and continue to build your engineering skills by solving technical problems and delivering high-quality software. You will balance the delivery of new features with writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code. You will troubleshoot and resolve operational issues with little or no oversight, participate in code reviews, and contribute to maintaining software quality and functional accuracy across the team. You will continue to deepen your understanding of the product, system design, and architecture while actively participating in engineering discussions and team ceremonies.

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

 Technology environment:

Relevant experience with the following technologies is recommended; experience with comparable enterprise technologies is also valuable.

• Backend: Java, Groovy, Kotlin
• Frameworks: Spring Boot
• Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Data and integration: Kafka
• CI/CD: Git, Vela, Ansible

 About you:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java/Kotlin
• Strong understanding of application architecture, system design, distributed programming, data structures, event-driven architectures and modern engineering practices
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Familiarity with current and emerging technologies and the ability to evaluate and apply them appropriately
• Commitment to maintaining technical and domain knowledge through formal training and self-directed education

 Nice to have:

• Front-end experience with technologies such as React and Redux

 

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.