Engineer - iOS

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win.

Tech Overview:

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.

Pyramid Overview:

Target.com and Mobile translates the in-store experience our guests love to the digital environment. Our Mobile Engineers develop native apps like Cartwheel and Target’s flagship app, which are high-impact and high-visibility assets that are game-changers for literally millions of guests. Here, you’ll get to explore emerging retail and mobile technologies, playing a key role in revolutionary product launches with tech giants like Apple and Google. You’ll be a visionary for the future of Target’s app ecosystem. You’ll have the advantage of Target’s unmatched brand recognition and special marketplace foothold—making us the partner of choice for innovative technologies like indoor mapping, iBeacons and Apple Pay. You’ll help Target evolve by using the latest open source tools and technologies and staying true to strong agile practices. You’ll lend your passion for engineering technologies that fix problems and meet needs guests didn’t even know they had. You’ll work on autonomous teams and incorporate the newest technical practices. You’ll have the chance to perform by writing rock-solid code that stands up to our massive scale. Plus, and perhaps best of all, you’ll have the right balance of self-rule and accountability for how technical products perform.

Position Overview

At Target Tech, engineering is central to everything we do: bringing our ideas to life and into the lives of our users. As an iOS Engineer, you will be an integral player in the Target’s Flagship app team based in Bangalore, India. With knowledge of the general mobile landscape, current user trends and preferences, and emerging technologies within the mobile engineering space, you will work alongside the product management team and cross-functional teams (Product Engineer, DevOps, Data, UX, Business, etc.) to develop robust, well-designed mobile apps. What you do every day will have an impact on millions on users using Target’s mobile apps.  

As part of this team, you will be building mobile solutions for Target’s Loyalty program (Circles & RedCard), Deals and Discovery, Gift Registry, Order history and tracking, and many more spaces on Target’s Flagship App. As part of this team, you will be always on latest tech stack. Our teams are already on SwiftUI and Combine with a great architecture fueling the growth and stability of our apps. 

Target’s Flagship App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/target/id297430070 

What You Will Do 

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

• Improve code structure and architecture in service of testability, observability and maintainability  

• Work closely with partner teams – Business, UX, Product - as needed  

• Perform complex engineering tasks independently and collaboratively  

• Manage complex cross-team coordination and dependencies  

• Evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs 

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience 

• 2+ years of experience in software design & development iOS Applications. 

• Experience developing in Swift and ability to write efficient, reusable, and maintainable code. 

• In-depth knowledge of native tools and frameworks (e.g., Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Xcode, Instruments, etc.) 

• Experience with Common iOS architectures (VIPER, MVVM, The Composable Architecture) 

• Excellent debugging, performance, and optimization skills 

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

• Experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines for development and delivery 

• Good communicator and team player with strong organizational skills 

• Proactively helps drive innovation within the company 

• Strong sense of software architecture and ability to thrive large codebases on large teams 

• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders 

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education 

Join the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest facing Target Android and iOS shopping App.  

Know More About Us Here:

Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion