Job Description

Job ID: 278103
Store Name/Number: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Hourly/Salaried: Salaried (Exempt)
Job Type:  
Position Type: Regular

Job Function: Information Technology

 

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 .

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...

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

The annual base salary range for this position is $173,610.00 - $192,900.00 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.

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.

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