Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering

Job ID: 278103
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type:
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Work Location: Hybrid-San Francisco

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...

This role is Hybrid at our San Francisco office...The right candidate must reside in the Bay Area. We are looking for a hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the evolution of Sephora’s Promotions Platform – the core engine powering our personalized offers, campaigns, and experiences across digital and stores. This role is ideal for someone who loves to design, build, and scale high-impact systems, while embracing the next wave of AI-augmented engineering.

You will work across the full stack – from modern Java-based microservices to intuitive React based front-end experiences and lead by example in design, coding, and technical decision-making while building large scale enterprise solutions suited for one of the best considered Ecommerce Platform in retail industry.

Reporting to the Manager. Engineering, you will collaborate closely with product, architecture, extremely talented peers and leads from cross functional teams 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 performance, scalability & quality and must be able to demonstrate all this in day to day working.

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

We're excited about you if you have:

• 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
• 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
• 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

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. 

• Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills. 

• Meaningful Work. As you make an impact on beauty, you’ll feel and see the positive change (consumer, industry, and social) that your individual voice is a part of. 

Rewards as Unique as You: 

Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment. 

• Health. 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. 

• Wealth. 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. 

• Balance. 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. 

• Growth. Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement. 

• Perks. Think you’ve tried it all? Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products. 

• Support. 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. 

Sephora values a diverse and inclusive workplace and considers all applicants without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, color, national origin, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), age, religion, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Sephora is committed to providing reasonable accommodation ta applicants with disabilities or other medical conditions.  

Sephora will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.  

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