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SEPHORA · 1 month ago

Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$174K/yr - $193K/yr

8+ years exp

Sephora is a leading beauty retailer committed to inspiring customers and empowering teams. They are seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the evolution of their Promotions Platform, focusing on designing, building, and scaling high-impact systems for personalized offers and campaigns across digital and stores.

BeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetail

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the teams for omni channel implementation of promotion capabilities across the enterprise

Design and build full-stack solutions across APIs, services, and UI layers by leveraging AI based code assistants such as GitHub CoPilot and Claude Code using Object-Oriented design principles and Software Engineering practices

Explore and integrate AI/ML-based capabilities such as intelligent campaign targeting, rule recommendations, fraud prevention, and optimizations

Build collaborative partnerships with architects, technical leads, and key individuals within other functional groups

Contribute to the overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability, and performance of the omni promotions engine API’s

Work with product and engineering team to understand requirements, evaluate new features and architecture to help drive decisions

Participate in sprint releases with close to zero tolerance on delivery slippages

Able to quickly understand the business domain of promotions for dotcom and retail channels

Proactively monitor, identify, isolate, and resolve problems to avoid impact on the business

Ensure all teams related incident tickets are handled appropriately within the SLA’s

Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pair programming

Qualification

Java/J2EESpring BootRESTful APIsMicroservices architectureReactAI developer toolsCloud-based applicationsSQLNoSQL databasesDebugging skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solvingMentoring

Required

8+ years hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing, and delivering enterprise solutions with excellent debug and troubleshooting skills

8+ years strong experience with Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks and other web related technologies

6+ years first-hand experience in designing, deploying, and managing RESTful APIs using JSON message structures

4+ years hands-on experience with designing cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform

Experience with Full stack development involving front end technologies such as Java Script, React

Experience leveraging AI developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claud Code) or integrating AI APIs into applications

Experience with Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus, and Azure logging

Experience in Implementation of monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics

Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, Coherence, etc

Hands-on experience with My SQL, MS SQL and any other No SQL databases

Working experience with GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications

Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place

Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient, and work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities

Preferred

Preferred to have first-hand experience on the Talon.One promo engine tool

Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing, and self-serviceable applications will be a plus

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans

A superior 401(k) plan

Various paid time off programs

Employee discount/perks

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

An employee referral bonus program

Company

SEPHORA

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Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.

Founded in 1969

Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, FRA

10001+ employees

https://www.sephora.com

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