Senior Engineer

Position: Senior Engineer, Payments
Job
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type:
Position Type:
Regular
Job Function:
Information Technology

Work Location:

Hybrid-San Francisco

Belong to Something Beautiful

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Your Role at Sephora:

Ready for a career glow up? As Senior Software Engineer, you'll be designing and developing cutting-edge omni-channel solutions that power Sephora's checkout and payment experiences. The work you do will impact beauty, as you create seamless, secure technology that connects our clients with the products they love across all channels. You'll be part of a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering innovative technical solutions and exceptional digital experiences.

What You'll Do:

* Architect and Develop Payment Solutions. Design, develop, and enhance omni-channel Payment and Checkout APIs that deliver best-in-breed solutions while ensuring security, scalability, and high performance.

* Drive Technical Excellence. Develop secure, high-quality production code, actively participate in code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including Architects, Dev Ops, Product Managers, and Quality Assurance to ensure solutions meet best practice specifications.

* Lead and Mentor. Drive conversations with offshore teams, assign tasks, review deliverables for completeness, and serve as a subject matter expert and onsite liaison on projects.

* Ensure System Reliability. Proactively monitor, identify, isolate, and resolve problems to avoid business impact, ensuring all incident tickets are handled appropriately within SLAs.

* Contribute to System Design. Work across the entire tech stack from enterprise application services to databases, contributing to overall system architecture, security, scalability, and performance.

* Deliver with Agility. Participate in sprint releases with close to zero tolerance on delivery slippages, working in a fast-paced agile development environment.

What You'll Bring:

* Deep Technical Expertise. 6+ years of hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, and RESTful API design using JSON and Graph

QL, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.

* Cloud Architecture Experience. 4+ years designing cloud-based applications using microservices architecture and best practices, preferably on MS Azure cloud platform, with knowledge of service mesh, monitoring tools, and streaming solutions.

* Database and Full Stack Proficiency. Hands-on experience with MySQL, MS SQL, No

SQL databases, and full stack development, along with experience leveraging AI-powered tools and automation frameworks to improve efficiency.

* Release Management Skills. 5+ years of experience with release planning, runbook documentation, performance test analysis, and phased rollout strategies in large-scale enterprise environments.

* Collaborative Leadership. Ability to foster strong working relationships with peers and cross-functional teams, with clear written and verbal communication skills and a highly self-motivated, independent work style.

* Retail and eCommerce Knowledge. Experience working in the retail industry with large-scale enterprise organization, eCommerce, and self-serviceable applications is a plus, with the ability to quickly understand business domains for both dotcom and retail channels.

* AI‑Augmented Engineering Practices. Demonstrated experience leveraging AI‑powered development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Claude/Claude Code, or similar) to improve engineering productivity and solution quality, including defining reusable prompts or 'skills' and shared contextual standards (architecture guidelines, coding conventions, domain constraints) to enable consistent, secure, and maintainable AI‑assisted development across teams.

What You'll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $ - $ 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. This job will be posted for a minimum of five days.

* Caring Community. You'll collaborate with teammates who are equally passionate about innovating and driving the industry forward - together, united in beauty.

* Fulfilling Path. Your career transformation starts here, with…