Lead Engineer, Microservices

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:

As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing innovative, scalable solutions using Java, REST, Spring Boot, GraphQL, React, Redux, and Node.js, as well as systems such as Contentful and PXM. You will collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to develop new features or enhance existing solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Driving the design and implementation of solutions, leveraging your expertise in technologies like CI/CD pipelines, Akamai, Kafka integration, and API gateways.

• Providing mentorship and guidance to engineers on best practices in coding, system architecture, documentation, and the software development lifecycle. • Fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement within the team.

Experience with Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (Gen AI) is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects and teams to design, deliver, and maintain Sephora’s systems for managing web, mobile apps and other content.
• Guide other engineers with expertise in coding, documentation, distributed systems architecture, and software development process.
• Closely work with engineering manager to design, implement, and deliver technical solutions for enterprise content systems, microservices and custom apps with Sephora technical standards.
• Expected to demonstrate innovative abilities and maintain a creative, solution-oriented mindset.
• Build collaborative partnerships with engineers, 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 with support from Architecture
• Support and enable the production teams to create world class experiences as efficiently as possible.
• Actively participate in code review and test solutions to ensure it meets best practice specifications.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API documentation, and coding guidelines.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage and assist in issue resolution.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 7+ years experience in web technology with a successful history of launching projects with experience with Microservices (REST and Graph) and kafka integration. Integrating with varied SQl and noSQL DBs
• 4+ years' experience leading or managing other engineers
• Experience in planning, designing, developing, and delivering enterprise software solutions for web and mobile apps
• Solid understanding of real-time publishing, edge caching, and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
• Experience creating RESTful microservices and exposure to GraphQL.
• Client-side technologies like JavaScript, ReactJs, NodeJs, ES6, HTML/HTML5, CSS (Sass/Less/Styled-System)
• Experience working in a cloud-based environment Azure preferred.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies
• Experience in Full-stack development, with specific skills in Java/.Net, JavaScript, Node.js and React Front-end.

You’ll love working here because:

The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.

The product. Employees enjoy a product discount and receive free product (“gratis”) various times throughout the year. (Think your friends and family love you now? Just wait until you work at Sephora!)

The business. It feels good to win – and Sephora is a leader in the retail industry, defining experiential retail with a digital focus and creating the most loved beauty community in the world…with the awards and accolades to back it up. The perks. Sephora offers comprehensive medical benefits, generous vacation/holiday time off, commuter benefits, and “Summer Fridays” (half-days every Friday between Memorial and Labor Day)…and so much more.

The LVMH family. Sephora’s parent company, LVMH, is one of the largest luxury groups in the world, providing support to over 70 brands such as Louis Vuitton, Celine, Marc Jacobs, and Dior.