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Lead Engineer, Marketing Technology
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$160.5K - $198.2K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Lead Engineer, Marketing Technology
Sephora
Role Description Ready for a career glow up? As Lead Engineer, Marketing Technology, you'll be the technical authority driving the architecture and evolution of Sephora's cutting-edge marketing platforms. The work you do will impact beauty, as you design and deliver innovative, scalable, and AI-powered solutions that create seamless, personalized client experiences across every digital and physical touchpoint. You'll lead a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about harnessing the power of technology to transform how our clients discover, experience, and love beauty. - Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical lead for key Marketing Technology initiatives, providing architectural guidance and hands-on expertise across web, mobile, and in-store platforms. - Full-Stack System Design: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure full-stack systems that power marketing campaigns, retail media, and personalization platforms. - AI-Powered Innovation: Architect and implement AI-powered agentic workflows for software development acceleration and business process automation, leveraging modern orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, and Amazon Bedrock Agents. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable, impactful technical solutions. - Engineering Excellence: Champion and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines across the team, rooted in software engineering first principles. - Mentorship & Growth: Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and accountability — including upskilling the team on AI-assisted development practices. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer, technical lead, or senior engineer building production systems from first principles, with strong proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and/or Java. - 3+ years of experience designing and implementing microservices, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, and cloud-based distributed systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure. - 2+ years of hands-on experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features and agentic workflows into production applications, including familiarity with RAG pipelines, vector databases, and leading AI model platforms. - 3+ years of experience in a MarTech, SaaS, e-commerce, or consumer-facing application environment, with hands-on familiarity with platforms such as Google Marketing Platform, Braze, or Bluecore. - 2+ years of proven experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, driving architectural decisions under ambiguity, and mentoring engineering teams. - Demonstrated daily use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor to write, refactor, debug, and accelerate software delivery. Benefits - The annual base salary range for this position is $160,470.00 - $198,200.00. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors. - Caring Community: 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 opportunities that will challenge, stretch and develop your skills. - Meaningful Work: Make an impact on beauty and feel the positive change that your individual voice is a part of. - Health: Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your family’s needs with medical, dental, and vision coverage. Sephora also fully covers our employees’ disability and life insurance. - Wealth: Competitive 401k with 4% match, FSA and HSA programs, and a Student Debt Retirement plan. - Balance: Empowered to find the perfect blend of work/life balance with PTO, flexibility, protected leave, and more. - Growth: Career growth is built into every role, with access to training, development, and tuition reimbursement. - Perks: Enjoy a 30% discount on all merchandise/services, opportunities for free product or “gratis,” and flash sale discounts on LVMH brand products. - Support: Access to free mental health and financial coaching resources with 24/7 access to Modern Health and Financial Finesse. Plus, volunteer and donation matching.
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