Manager, Engineering, Web, Microservices - Sephora USA, Inc

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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.

The Opportunity:

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 an Engineer Manager, you will be collaborating with colleagues and the architecture team to build solutions that focus on performance, usability, scalability, and standards. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, eCommerce Development, you will work closely with extremely talented architects, leads and peers from cross functional teams and product managers supporting ongoing agile delivery by a diverse, distributed engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

Manages projects from kick-off through launch. Defines, scope, requirements, timing, and resources needed, considering site architecture, standards, and functionality.

Communicates updates on project milestones, decisions, status, mitigation, and delivery across business groups.

Ensures projects are launched on- time, on-strategy, and meet high-quality standards.

Manage a team of engineers to deliver and maintain Sephora’s systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.

Guiding the team in design, architecture, implementation, validation, and monitoring, leveraging your experience to identify potential pitfalls and set coding standards.

Actively participating in code reviews to help the team deliver robust, maintainable, and high-quality software.

Strategically planning and prioritizing the backlog, assigning tasks to team members, tracking project execution and mitigating any observed risks

Communicating progress, risks, and outcomes to senior management and other relevant stakeholders.

Collaborating closely with Product and Program Management and UX Design teams to determine feasibility and scope of execution of new features

• Collaborating closely with Product and Program Management and UX Design teams to determine feasibility and scope of execution of new features

  and maintaining relationships with partner teams to manage dependencies.
• Modeling a culture that values a growth mindset, integrity, accountability, andrespect and coaching the team to become independent leaders.
• Attending to team members' needs and aligning their work with their career development aspirations.
• Fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture that values diversity and promotes a sense of belonging and respect. Prioritizing, delegating, and supervising all engineering activities and deliverables, providing strategic technical input and solutions when needed.

Managing the recruitment, onboarding, and continuous training of engineering talentto build and maintain a skilled team. Conducting performance reviews, setting

objectives, and facilitating career development plans for team members. Approvingtimesheets for consultants in Fieldglass.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 8+ years experience managing eCommerce website operations across desktop and mobile web.
• 8+ years' experience in web technology with a successful history of launching projects with experience with Microservices (REST and Graph) and kafka integration
• 2+ years' experience leading or managing other engineers.
• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Experience leading technology projects
• Strong hands-on coding experience with Java, Springboot, Microservices APIs, GraphQL etc.
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Successfully delivered solutions using one of the cloud platforms e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure/ PCF
• Integrated with messaging platforms e.g. RabbitMQ/ Kafka/ cloud messaging/ enterprise messaging
• Experience working on API Gatewaysuch as Axway or Apigee
• In-depth knowledge of the Retail industry and their IT systems
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines
• Experience with GraphQL, nice to have.
• Exposure to Machine learning and GenAI is a plus.

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.

The annual base salary range for this position is $152,010.00- $187,700.00 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. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

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.