Sr. iOS Engineer - Mobile Platform(Remote Or Hybrid)

The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00

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 Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation.

You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation.

You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences. We also embrace AI-assisted development and Generative AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and developer experience across our engineering teams.

You’ll have opportunities to experiment, innovate, and influence how Target engineers build the next generation of retail technology.

Flagship Mobile Apps:

Work on the team that brings Target guests their “shopping and saving sidekick” – the guest-facing Target Android and iOS shopping app.

iOS Platform Team:

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. If any of this excites you, we would love to have you join us!

As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Mobile Platform team, you will:

  • Help advance our architecture and abstractions, allowing our code to continue to scale and empowering feature teams to deliver with ever increasing autonomy.
  • Drive adoption of modern Swift Concurrency (async/await, structured concurrency, actors) to improve safety, readability, and performance.
  • Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines.
  • Develop clean, well-tested code to deliver functionality that meets the broader engineering team’s needs.
  • Build and maintain developer tools to help our feature teams work effectively.
  • Develop libraries and foundations in areas such as build tools, testing, analytics, networking, and logging.
  • Solicit feedback from the development team to help drive a great overall developer experience.
  • Mentor junior engineers to provide guidance on coding and design best practices for iOS apps.
  • Provide high level tooling support to feature team engineers during work hours.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements:

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of experience developing apps for iOS
  • Experience developing in Swift
  • Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
  • Excellent debugging, performance and optimization skills
  • Experience with distributing mobile applications via public app stores and/or enterprise channels
  • Experience with integrating calls to backend services (REST or GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
  • Excellent hands
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