Senior Software Engineer

Sephora; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent beauty retailer in Singapore seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Digital Technology team. You'll lead modernization efforts for user-facing pages, enhance performance, and improve search capabilities. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience with large scale applications and scalable APIs. Join a cultural environment that embraces authenticity and inclusivity, providing growth opportunities and a fulfilling work experience.

Benefits

Empowering community and culture

Learning and growth opportunities

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in large scale, complex web applications.
• Experience in designing and maintaining scalable APIs.
• Value automated testing at appropriate levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of user-facing pages using SSR and micro-frontends.
• Improve performance and integration of third-party tools.
• Enhance search capabilities for product discovery.
• Create mechanisms for campaign content to increase engagement.
• Mentor junior engineers to grow their skills.

Skills

Experience with large scale web applications

API design and maintenance

Automated testing

Team collaboration

Job description

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.

Sephora SEA’s omni channel business spans over 8 countries (Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines) with 100+ stores and boasts some global flagships such as ION and Raffles City in Singapore, F88 in Kuala Lumpur and Pitt Street in Sydney. Sephora SEA is experiencing rapid growth in the region with new store openings and business channels (., Click and collect and marketplace).

The Opportunity

Sephora Digital’s Technology team builds products that power our business across South East Asia & Oceania. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Discovery squad, the team responsible for building products and features around increasing organic traffic to key pages like landing or product details while improving the experience for search and recommendations. This includes performance enhancements, SEO, cutting edge technologies like micro frontend, and many more to deliver an engaging experience to our users. This is a key position in the team as we increase our capacity to deliver an ambitious roadmap to our many fans across 16 countries.

Responsibilities

• Help lead the modernisation of our user-facing pages by leveraging technologies and patterns such as Server‑Side Rendering (SSR) and micro‑frontends.
• Oversee integrations and performance improvements for 3rd party tools which provide additional functionality such as Dynamic Yield, Olapic.
• Enhance our search capabilities and performance to improve internal navigation and product discovery.
• Work with stakeholders to create campaign content creation mechanisms to increase customer engagement and delight users.
• Manage and mentor one or more Junior / Software Engineers within the squad to help grow their capabilities.

Requirements

• You have at least 5+ years of experience working on large scale, complex web applications.
• You have demonstrated experience in designing, building and maintaining scalable, adaptable APIs in production environments.
• You understand the value of automated testing at the appropriate level and actively do so.
• You are a team player and happy to communicate with the other teams in the company (Product Managers, UI / UX Designers, and more importantly fellow engineers locally and abroad).

Here, you will find

• Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.
• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.
• Work that brings fulfilment, from delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

It is in the Sephora DNA to champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. Join us and belong to something beautiful.

Sephora is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.