Senior Engineer, Personalization - Data Engineering

Job ID: 261287
Location Name: FSC REMOTE SF/NY/DC -173(USA_0173)
Address: FSC, Remote, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Information Technology
Remote Eligible:Yes

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 a Senior Engineer, you will design and build cutting-edge, large-scale personalization solutions that revolutionize user experiences. Collaborate closely with our innovative product team, shaping the future of our personalization platform by evaluating and implementing groundbreaking features and architectural designs. Engineers system design and implementation in e-commerce tech stack, marketing tech stack and data drivers, custom in-house solutions heavily involving data, AI/ML and seamlessly integrating AI/ML balancing with functionalities in e-commerce and marketing domains.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, Personalization Experiences, you'll work side-by-side with brilliant minds, including enterprise architects, business and product teams, to understand user needs and translate them into exceptional software. This hands-on, high-impact technical role demands a deep understanding of best practices in the industry and a passion for pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Join our journey and make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality, scalable software solutions for our personalization platform.
• Develop microservices, which includes RESTful APIs, message-driven services (e.g., Kafka), batch processing services, and other architectural patterns using Spring Boot Java.
• Develop user interfaces (UIs) using React framework. Develop data processing pipelines in different modes – near real time, batch, real time.
• Develop AI/ML models for personalization. Complete end-to-end ownership of projects assigned at a given point in time, with technical prowess.
• Leads, executes and resolves issues with end-to-end experiences for customers involving data and ML implementation.
• Leads, executes and resolves issues with data pipelines that process heavy volume data effectively and efficiently, delivering data drivers that directly impacts personalized customer experience.
• Leads, executes and resolves issues with audience count, collaborating with data scientists for heavy data / ML processing, impacting user experience using in-house built tools enabling business users take right decisions.
• Perform high level and/or detailed solution design for business and/or technical problems on hand involving Data, AI & ML , eCommerce and marketing technologies.
• Perform detailed analysis of business and technical problems / environments.
• Conduct peer code reviews and contribute to coding standards. Write unit tests and promote a variety of good engineering best practices.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product managers, business teams and other stakeholders) to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Continuously look for optimization opportunities to simplify the systems design and solutions implemented using technologies / tools specified above.
• With technology landscape changing rapidly, learn new technologies as need be and produce results as part of the regular projects.
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance. Lead by example and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, providing timely support and fixes. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and errors.

We're excited about you if you have:

• 6+ years' experience in full stack development, data processing & machine learning models with a successful history of launching projects
• 3+ years experience in Lead, design, implement and own end-to-end delivery of e-commerce and marketing projects involving various technologies including but not limited to Java microservices for high availability systems using Object-Oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, DBMS/SQL, full stack using Spring boot, ReactJS, RDBMS/NoSQL, or other UI and API related technologies along with ML components
• 3+ years experience in Business, Technology and Architectural understanding is required to manage all initiatives. Ability to analyze business problems and technical situations to design quality technical solution, go deep, troubleshoot and fix defects independent of team members, if / when there is a need to reduce the turn-around time.
• 3+ years experience in Implemented eCommerce website and / or MarTech operations across desktop, mobile web, mobile applications, emails and other communication channels, and/or integrations with different technologies / systems (on-prem and SaaS).
• Experienced in handling huge volume of data, ML integrations, asynchronous and near-real time processing in massively parallel threads
• Experience in implementing machine learning models and working with Data scientists

The annual base salary range for this position is $162,090.00 - $180,100.00 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.