Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering
Listed on 2025-12-17
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer
Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering
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
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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 Git Hub 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
- 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., Git Hub Copilot, Claud Code) or…
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