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Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and own high-performance, multi-region backend services.
- Drive architectural decisions and non-functional requirements for performance, load testing, and infrastructure scaling.
- Develop distributed systems, microservices, event-driven messaging, REST APIs, data models, caching solutions, and database queries.
- Analyze production metrics, logging, and other observability signals to improve services and ship products.
- Participate in 24/7 on-call support for production issues on a rotation every 3–4 weeks.
- Mentor junior and peer engineers, lead design sessions, conduct code reviews, and communicate architectural concepts across teams.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software development experience designing, deploying, and owning complex production services.
- At least 4 years of experience with backend REST services and relational or NoSQL databases.
- Experience building and scaling multi-region distributed architectures, microservices, or SOA systems.
- Experience with Go, Kafka or comparable messaging queues, PostgreSQL, Redis or comparable caching technologies, and distributed data modeling.
- At least 2 years of experience with messaging queues such as Kafka.
- At least 2 years of experience driving non-functional requirements for performance, load testing, and infrastructure scaling.
- Knowledge of computer science principles, design patterns such as Gang of Four, observability, logging, metrics, and production on-call operations.
- Experience designing and maintaining high-volume RESTful APIs using functional and object-oriented programming paradigms.
- Demonstrated mentoring, design leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangements with typically at least 2 in-office days per week in Birmingham, at least 1 day per week in Minneapolis, and at least 1 day per week in San Francisco; some roles may require full-time office presence.
- Zero travel requirement is stated.
- Medical, dental, vision, and additional coverage for employees and eligible family members.
- 401(k) plan, discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Eligibility for an annual bonus and potential restricted stock units based on role.
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About Shipt
Through a community of shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt.com.