Lead Developer - Front End

OVERVIEW

Live the experience
. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity.

Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

Ulta Beauty is seeking a Front-End Lead to guide our development stream for the  and affiliated websites, in building engaging, high-performing, and AI-driven digital experiences for millions of beauty enthusiasts. You will work alongside talented architects, technical leads, software engineers, and quality engineers in our highly collaborative and fast paced environment where our goal is to design and implement the state of the art performance friendly ecommerce solutions in agile fashion.

This is 70% hands on and 30% team management split.

• Architect & Build:
  Lead the design and development of a new web and mobile platform using modern JavaScript, responsive, and adaptive stacks.
• Drive Innovation:
  Take product initiatives from conception through delivery, iteratively producing measurable business value.
• Team Leadership:
  Manage a small team of front-end developers, oversee day-to-day work allocation, and ensure delivery of high-quality code by performing code reviews.
• Hands-On Delivery:
  Take ownership of technical design and implementation, ensuring multiple projects move forward in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Creative:
  Display high creativity and strategic decision-making while collaborating across UX, product, and backend teams.
• Ownership:
  Partner with product owners to deliver projects on time and at scale, from start to finish.
• AI Adoption:
  Drive the use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, LLM-powered testing and optimization) to boost productivity and innovation.
• Problem Solving:
  Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports and provide direction in problem resolution.
• Production Support:
  Ability to analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes.
• Performance:
  Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance.
• Collaborate:
  Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into Ulta Beauty products.

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with recent leadership of small to midsize teams.
• Deep expertise in JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, with strong hands on knowledge of React, Redux, NodeJS, React Testing Library (RTL).
• Experience with responsive/mobile-first design, design systems, micro-frontends.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Previous full stack experience; familiarity with Java and JEE preferred.
• Strong grasp of web performance, SEO, and accessibility (WCAG).
• Proven experience applying AI tools (e.g., code generation, test automation, performance optimization).
• Experience integrating with Graph
  
  QL APIs and handle state management effectively.
• Experience implementing SSR for React applications and optimize for performance and SEO.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like JIRA.
• Proactive, self-directed, detail-oriented, and organized.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field (preferred).

• Fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
• Support off-hours production issues and code deployments when needed.
• Minimal travel required (e.g., training, conferences).

The pay range for this position is $ - $ / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates…