SEPHORA · 3 weeks ago
Senior Engineer, Payments
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
6+ years expSephora is a leading beauty retailer with a dynamic technology team based in San Francisco. They are seeking a Senior Engineer to design and develop applications that enhance the omni-channel experience, particularly focusing on Payments and Checkout APIs.
BeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetail
Hiring Manager
Amber Oubre
Responsibilities
Technical design, development and delivery of complex features and enhancement of omni channel Payment and checkout APIs
Develop secure and high-quality production code, and actively participate in code review and test solutions to ensure it meets best practice specifications
Drive conversations with offshore team and able to assign the tasks and review the completeness of those tasks
Work across entire tech stack from enterprise applications services to data base
Collaborate with cross functional teams in the interest of project progress – Architects, Devops, Network team, Project Managers, Product managers, Quality Assurance, Performance Engineering, Technical leads
Contribute to the overall system design, architecture, security, scalability, reliability and performance of the Payment and Marketplace API’s
Serves as a subject matter expert and onsite liaison on the projects involved
Participate in sprint releases with close to zero tolerance on delivery slippages
Able to quickly understand the business domain 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
Qualification
Required
6+ years hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering enterprise solutions with excellent debug and troubleshooting skills
6+ 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 using JSON message structures and GraphQL based integration
4+ years hands-on experience with designing cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform
5+ years hands-on experience with release planning, runbook documentation, performance test results analysis & fixes, phased rollout strategies
Hands-on experience with Full stack development, 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 Dynatrace
Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, Redis cache, 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
Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment
Collaborative and be able to foster good working relationships with peers and other colleagues
Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient and work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities
Clear written and verbal communication skills
Friendly, articulate, and be able to work in a fun, small team environment
Preferred
Experience leveraging AI-powered tools, LLMs, or automation frameworks to improve efficiency or problem-solving
Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plus
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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