Lead Engineer, eCommerce Engineering, Backend Systems

Job ID: 247834
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
Remote Eligible:Hybrid Schedule

Company Overview:

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves.  We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us.  We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

The Opportunity:

Your role at Sephora 

As a Lead Engineer, you will design and implement large scale enterprise solutions suited for one of the best considered Ecommerce Platform in retail industry. Reporting to the Senior Director. Engineering, you will work closely with extremely talented peers, leads from cross functional teams, enterprise architects and product managers 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 and quality and must be able to demonstrate all this in day to day working. Come be a part of the team that is chartered to deliver best of the breed solutions in Ecommerce space.

Responsibilities 

• Help in the evaluation of 3rd party vendors pertaining to promotions and payments requirements
• Lead, design and implement Java microservices for high availability systems using Object-Oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, DBMS/SQL, and Software Engineering practices
• Work with product and engineering team to understand requirements, evaluate new features and architecture to help drive decisions
• Build collaborative partnerships with architects, technical leads and key individuals within other functional groups
• Perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments and use this in designing quality technical solution
• Actively participate in code review and test solutions to ensure it meets best practice specifications
• Build and foster a high-performance engineering culture, mentor team members and provide team with the tools and motivation to make things happen
• Work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop new solutions or enhance existing solution
• Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative

We’re excited about you if you have: 

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in planning, designing, developing and delivering enterprise solutions using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, JBoss and other web related technologies
• First-hand experience in designing, deploying and managing Java micro services and RESTful APIs
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform
• Prior experience in decomposing monolith application into micro services and deployed them in highly available, scalable and fault tolerant setup on cloud platforms
• Working experience with Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus and Azure logging
• Implemented monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics
• Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence, etc
• Good hands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Postgres, Redis databases as high-performance cloud IaaS and PaaS setup
• Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications
• Analytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient and able to handle several projects; work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment
• Friendly, articulate, and interested in working in a fun, small team environment
• Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plus
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred

The annual base salary range for this position is $152,010.00 - $187,700.00 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.  Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes 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; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy… 

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.  
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.