SEPHORA · 7 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$174K/yr - $193K/yr
8+ years expSephora is a company that values diversity and inclusivity, and they are seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the evolution of their Promotions Platform. This role involves designing, building, and scaling high-impact systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise solutions.
BeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetail
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
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
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
Working experience with GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications
Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing, and self-serviceable applications will be a plus
Benefits
Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance.
We offer a competitive 401k with 4% match as well as FSA and HSA programs.
We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan, where your student loan payments qualify to earn the 401k match from Sephora.
You’ll be empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance that actually works for you with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more.
Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement.
Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products.
Join a team that truly cares – with free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse.
Plus, volunteer and donation matching.
Company
SEPHORA
Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items.
10001+ employees
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