Senior Engineer, Payments

Sephora•San Francisco, CA

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential, and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful. As Senior Software Engineer, you'll be designing and developing cutting-edge omni-channel solutions that power Sephora's checkout and payment experiences. The work you do will impact beauty, as you create seamless, secure technology that connects our clients with the products they love across all channels. You'll be part of a team that's united in beauty, supported by those who are equally passionate about delivering innovative technical solutions and exceptional digital experiences.

Requirements

6+ years of hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, and RESTful API design using JSON and GraphQL, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
4+ years designing cloud-based applications using microservices architecture and best practices, preferably on MS Azure cloud platform, with knowledge of service mesh, monitoring tools, and streaming solutions.
Hands-on experience with MySQL, MS SQL, NoSQL databases, and full stack development, along with experience leveraging AI-powered tools and automation frameworks to improve efficiency.
5+ years of experience with release planning, runbook documentation, performance test analysis, and phased rollout strategies in large-scale enterprise environments.
Ability to foster strong working relationships with peers and cross-functional teams, with clear written and verbal communication skills and a highly self-motivated, independent work style.
Demonstrated experience leveraging AI‑powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude/Claude Code, or similar) to improve engineering productivity and solution quality, including defining reusable prompts or 'skills' and shared contextual standards (architecture guidelines, coding conventions, domain constraints) to enable consistent, secure, and maintainable AI‑assisted development across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in the retail industry with large-scale enterprise organization, eCommerce, and self-serviceable applications is a plus, with the ability to quickly understand business domains for both dotcom and retail channels.

Responsibilities

Architect and Develop Payment Solutions: Design, develop, and enhance omni-channel Payment and Checkout APIs that deliver best-in-breed solutions while ensuring security, scalability, and high performance.
Drive Technical Excellence: Develop secure, high-quality production code, actively participate in code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams including Architects, DevOps, Product Managers, and Quality Assurance to ensure solutions meet best practice specifications.
Lead and Mentor: Drive conversations with offshore teams, assign tasks, review deliverables for completeness, and serve as a subject matter expert and onsite liaison on projects.
Ensure System Reliability: Proactively monitor, identify, isolate, and resolve problems to avoid business impact, ensuring all incident tickets are handled appropriately within SLAs.
Contribute to System Design: Work across the entire tech stack from enterprise application services to databases, contributing to overall system architecture, security, scalability, and performance.
Deliver with Agility: Participate in sprint releases with close to zero tolerance on delivery slippages, working in a fast-paced agile development environment.