Job Description
About the position As an Engineering Manager at Sephora, you will lead a team of engineers in developing and maintaining scalable and high-performance web solutions, particularly focusing on eCommerce operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project delivery aligns with business goals and quality standards, while fostering a culture of growth and inclusivity within your team. Responsibilities • Manages projects from kick-off through launch, defining scope, requirements, timing, and resources needed. • 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. • Manages a team of engineers to deliver and maintain Sephora's systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability. • Guides the team in design, architecture, implementation, validation, and monitoring, identifying potential pitfalls and setting coding standards. • Actively participates in code reviews to help the team deliver robust, maintainable, and high-quality software. • Strategically plans and prioritizes the backlog, assigning tasks to team members, tracking project execution, and mitigating risks. • Communicates progress, risks, and outcomes to senior management and other relevant stakeholders. • Collaborates closely with Product and Program Management and UX Design teams to determine feasibility and scope of new features. • Models a culture that values a growth mindset, integrity, accountability, and respect, coaching the team to become independent leaders. • Attends to team members' needs and aligns their work with their career development aspirations. • Fosters a collaborative and inclusive team culture that values diversity and promotes a sense of belonging and respect. • Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises all engineering activities and deliverables, providing strategic technical input and solutions when needed. • Manages the recruitment, onboarding, and continuous training of engineering talent to build and maintain a skilled team. • Conducts performance reviews, sets objectives, and facilitates career development plans for team members. Requirements • 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 in 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. • Strong hands-on coding experience with Java, Spring Boot, 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. • Applied distributed caching solutions like Redis, Memcached, etc. • Experience working on API Gateway such as Axway or Apigee. • In-depth knowledge of the Retail industry and their IT systems. Nice-to-haves • Experience with GraphQL. • Exposure to Machine learning and GenAI. Benefits • Commuter assistance • Disability insurance • Health insurance • Dental insurance • Flexible spending account • Paid time off • Vision insurance • Employee discount • Life insurance • Referral program Apply tot his job