[Remote] Lead Software Engineer, Omni Promotions eCommerce Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sephora is a leading beauty retailer that inspires customers and empowers teams. They are seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the evolution of their Promotions Platform, focusing on designing, building, and scaling high-impact systems while integrating AI capabilities. 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 GitHub 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 Skills • 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., GitHub Copilot, Claud Code) or integrating AI APIs into applications • Experience with Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus, and Azure logging • Experience in Implementation of monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics • Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, Coherence, etc • Hands-on experience with My SQL, MS SQL and any other No SQL databases • Working experience with GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications • Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place • Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient, and work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities • Preferred to have first-hand experience on the Talon.One promo engine tool • Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing, and self-serviceable applications will be a plus Benefits • 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 • An employee referral bonus program Company Overview • Sephora is an online shopping site that offers a range of beauty products such as cosmetics and skincare items. It was founded in 1969, and is headquartered in Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, FRA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • SEPHORA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 24 in 2025, 49 in 2024, 70 in 2023, 49 in 2022, 29 in 2021, 32 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job