Frontend Engineer – FieldX

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 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 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 this Team: The FieldX team owns the end-to-end development, operation, and support of Target’s retail merchandising experimentation platform. This includes the frontend experience, backend services, analytics and metrics pipelines, AI-powered insights and recommendations, documentation, and user support. The team enables merchandisers to design and run store experiments, measure results, and make data-driven rollout decisions.

Bring your skills, experience, and talents to help turn ambitious ideas into impactful solutions. As an Engineer, you’ll contribute to building and supporting reliable, high-quality web applications while growing your technical skills and collaborating with experienced engineers. Apply your technical knowledge to develop, test, and maintain well-structured code while following established designs, coding standards, and best practices. Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and the evaluation of new technologies. With guidance, build solutions that are scalable, secure, and maintainable. Contribute to development, debugging, testing, and automation efforts to ensure applications meet functional and performance expectations.

Help troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, use development tools and application metrics to identify problems, and support ongoing improvements. Participate in integration and regression testing, contribute to disaster recovery activities as needed, and follow established change and incident management processes to support reliable operations.

The ideal candidate should have a foundational understanding of web development, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with the ability to write clean, readable code. Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React and Next.js is a plus. They should understand core web development concepts, including reusable components, responsive design, user interactions, API integration, and basic application state management.

Candidates should have experience with Git for version control, unit testing, and debugging, including the ability to write and maintain unit tests that validate functionality and help prevent defects. They should be familiar with browser developer tools and understand the importance of accessibility, usability, and code quality. Above all, they should demonstrate a willingness to learn, collaborate with others, ask questions, and apply feedback to continuously improve their skills and contributions.

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

Tech Stack Our team builds and maintains modern web applications using a variety of frontend technologies and development tools. Key technologies and skills include:

• Core Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Frontend Frameworks: React and Next.js (familiarity preferred)
• Version Control: Git
• Development Tools: Browser developer tools, debugging tools, and modern frontend development environments
• Web Development Concepts: REST APIs, responsive design, accessibility, reusable components, and state management

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

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.

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.