Senior Engineer, Content & Catalog Systems
SephoraAbout the role
Job ID: 240428
Location Name: FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA_0173)
Address: FSC, Remote, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Yes
Company Overview:
At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.
The Opportunity:
Your role at Sephora:
As a Senior Engineer, you will work with a team of engineers, engineering leads and product managers to deliver and extend large scale enterprise content and catalog solutions for all channels within Sephora. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will work closely with extremely talented peers, leads from cross functional teams, enterprise architects and product managers to evaluate and understand requirements, identify gaps, and come up with best ways to achieve the solution. We are rebuilding our content, catalog, asset and campaign workflow management capabilities at Sephora and this role will have a major influence on the systems, tools and people that will shape it.
Responsibilities
- Work with team of software engineers to deliver and maintain Sephora’s systems for managing web, mobile and other content, photography, product catalog, and promotions.
- Guide other engineers with expertise in coding, documentation, distributed systems architecture, and software development process.
- Closely work with engineering lead to design, implement and deliver technical solutions for enterprise content systems and custom apps with Sephora technical standards.
- Partner with application development teams to enhance and empower their capabilities for merchandising, selling, and informing our clients.
- Build collaborative partnerships with engineers, technical leads, and key individuals within other functional groups.
- Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use this in designing quality technical solution with support from Architecture
- Support and enable the production teams to create world class experiences as efficiently as possible
- Actively participate in code review and test solutions to ensure it meets best practice specifications.
- Expected to demonstrate innovative abilities and maintain a creative, solution-oriented mindset.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API documentation, and coding guidelines.
- Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage and assist in issue resolution.
- Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative
We’re excited about you if you have:
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing, and delivering enterprise solutions for web and enterprise content/catalog management systems such as Contentstack, Contentful, Adobe Experience Manager/AEM Assets, DAM, PIM/PXM, MDM, or Amplience.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Full-stack development, with specific skills in Java, JavaScript, Node.js, and React Front-end.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in collaborative work with a team of engineers and efficiently deliver solutions.
- First-hand experience in designing, developing, deploying, and managing React Apps, RESTful APIs using Node/Java Spring Boot.
- Expertise in Content Modelling for Content Centric Applications.
- Solid understanding of real-time publishing, edge caching, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
- Strong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform.
- Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications.
- Hands-on experience with queuing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence.
- Analytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
- Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient, and able to handle several projects, work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment.
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