Lead Engineer, Personalized Consumer Experiences-Full Stack

Job ID: 254866
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Hybrid Schedule

 

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:

Technology

Our technology team works fast and smart. With San Francisco as our home, we take bringing new tech to market seriously, developing the latest in mobile technologies, scalable architecture, and the coolest in-store client experience. We love what we do and we have fun doing it. The Technology group is comprised of motivated self-starters and true team players that are absolutely integral to the growth of Sephora and our future success. 

 

Your role at Sephora:

As a Lead Software Engineer you will design and implement large scale enterprise solutions suited for one of the best considered Customer Experiences platform in retail industry. Reporting to the Engineering leader, 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. This is a hands-on technical role which demand strong engineering capability with an eye on non-functional aspects like performance, availability, scalability, quality, deployment, infrastructure, etc. and must be able to demonstrate all this in day to day working.

Come be a part of the team that is chartered to deliver best of the breed solutions in this space.

 

Responsibilities

• Lead, design and implement Java microservices for high availability systems using Object-Oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, DBMS/SQL, and Software Engineering practices
• Complete end-to-end ownership of multiple projects at a given point in time, with technical prowess.
• Work with product and engineering team to understand requirements, evaluate new features,  architecture and arrive at technical solutions to help drive decisions.
• Build collaborative partnerships with architects, technical leads and key individuals within other functional groups
• Perform high level and/or detailed solution design for business and/or technical problems on hand.
• Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use this in designing quality technical solution
• Actively participate in code review and test solutions to ensure it meets best practice specifications.
• Complete and deliver projects on-time, on-quality meeting both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Build and foster a high-performance engineering culture, mentor team members and provide team with the tools and motivation to make things happen
• Continuously look for optimization opportunities to simplify the systems design and solutions, where possible. With technology landscape changing rapidly, learn new technologies as need be and produce results as part of the regular projects.
• Work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop new solutions or enhance existing solution
• 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:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering enterprise solutions using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, JBoss (or equivalent) and other web related technologies, any NoSQL DB (Azure Cosmos DB, Cassandra, Mongo), RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL), Cloud (Azure, GCP), 2+ year(s) of experience in Kafka event processing and 2+ years of experience in Front End like Rea