Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering

Job ID: 284680
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
Work Location: Hybrid-San Francisco

 

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful. 

 

Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions, you'll be driving the evolution of Sephora's Promotions Platform – the core engine powering personalized offers, campaigns, and experiences. The work you do will impact beauty, as you design and build scalable systems that deliver tailored experiences to our clients across digital and stores. You'll be part of a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering best-of-breed eCommerce solutions.

 

What You'll Do:

• Lead omni-channel promotion capabilities. Drive implementation of promotion features across the enterprise, ensuring seamless experiences from online to in-store.

• Design and build full-stack solutions. Create robust APIs, services, and UI layers using modern Java-based microservices and React, leveraging AI-based code assistants like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.

• Innovate with AI/ML capabilities. Explore and integrate intelligent campaign targeting, rule recommendations, fraud prevention, and optimization features.

• Champion technical excellence. Contribute to system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance while mentoring engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pair programming.

• Collaborate cross-functionally. Build partnerships with architects, technical leads, and product teams to evaluate requirements, identify gaps, and deliver solutions within sprint cycles.

• Monitor and optimize performance. Proactively identify, isolate, and resolve problems to ensure zero business impact, handling incident tickets within SLAs.

 

What You'll Bring:

• Deep technical expertise. 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture, preferably on MS Azure cloud platform.

• Full-stack proficiency. 3+ years with front-end technologies like JavaScript and React, plus experience with AI developer tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) or integrating AI APIs.

• Enterprise-scale experience. Proven track record designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based applications with strong skills in Kafka, MySQL, service mesh (Istio), and monitoring tools (Splunk, AppDynamics).

• Promotions platform knowledge. Understanding of retail promotions engines; experience with Talon.One is preferred.

• Educational foundation. BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred.

• Collaborative mindset. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agile environment, mentor team members, and maintain clear communication while working with global teams across multiple time zones.

 

What You’ll Get: 

The annual base salary range for this position is $178,380.00 - $198,200.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days. 

• Caring Community. You’ll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward – together, united in beauty.