Tech Lead - Backend

Overview:
Discover the possibilities of our progressive, omnichannel approach to beauty retail. At Ulta Beauty, our E-commerce associates sit at the cutting edge of our efforts to reimagine the future of retail. Through a full suite of new and emerging technologies, this team is creating an enhanced buying experience for guests who crave simplicity, choice, personal insights and the joy of discovery. With greater interactivity. Inspired applications of big data, AI and UI/UX. And creative that persuades and delights. All of this, with the opportunity to experience smart ideas come to life.
At Ulta Beauty, we're forever imagining. Forever striving. Forever investing in next-gen-with deep and rich opportunities for ongoing learning, growth and advancement. We encourage you to take control of your career and set your own ceiling. For curious and big-picture thinkers who can flex to the need and who want to stretch themselves through courage and conviction, Ulta Beauty provides an environment perfectly suited to your ambitions. Let's build brilliant together.
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THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:
The Consumer Technology team is currently looking for an experienced, Technical Lead to work in our digital commerce development team. The Tech Lead (TL) has significant responsibilities related to planning, architecture and execution, and operates in a highly dynamic and fast paced environment. The TL is an executor and the visionary force behind the technical solution. The TL values simplicity and is unafraid to challenge technical constraints and procedures to achieve an Agile design. This role will work closely with Architects, Developers, SDETS, Product Owners, Scrum masters, and other cross-functional teams to implement and support highly scalable, distributed applications built on Java and cloud technologies. The TL will drive the team's engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment. The Tech Lead is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems.
YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY:

• Collaborates with Architects, Product owners, Scrum masters, Tech Leads, QA, and cross-functional teams to design and implement complex, scalable, and maintainable Java-based solutions, ensuring best practices and code quality while providing technical leadership to the development team and mentoring team members.
• Designs and implements web applications in a service-oriented architecture that is event-driven, highly scalable, secured, and exposed as Rest API on the Google Cloud platform.
• Lead a team of developers, ensuring best coding practices while maintaining code quality, supporting QA and production go-live.
• Investigate complex issues, implement fixes, and perform performance tuning.
• Proposes design solutions, conducts proof of concepts, estimates development effort, and writes code according to solution design in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

• Partner with the Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the technical stack
• Work alongside business stakeholders, visual designers, UX architects, Java technical leads, QA analysts, and application architects in a collaborative environment to iteratively deliver solutions on time and on budget

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ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7-10 years of experience in software development with broad experience in designing, programming, and implementing large information systems, with specific expertise in Java/JEE v8 and above, Java streams, reactive programming, and web technology with functional programming.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing enterprise-scale, Microservices-based, headless REST APIs and implementing event-driven architectures working with message streams.
• Experience leading highly technical teams in agile and iterative models.

• Experience championing continuous delivery and helping engineers improve their skills, including fostering strong relationships with product owners

• Expert-level knowledge of the Java Stack: Maven/Gradle, Spring Boot, Spring. Strong understanding of application development, web services, open-source frameworks, service-oriented architecture (SOA), object-oriented design and analysis, design patterns, and best practices.
• Familiarity with Junit, SonarQube, Swagger/OAS 3.0, monitoring tools such as DynaTrace, NewRelic, MAT or JProfiler, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, EasyMock or PowerMock, message streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or similar platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or other cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of GIT / Bitbucket repository or any similar version repository experience
• Working Knowledge of Prisma vulnerabilities.
• Passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to collaborate with other creative minds.
• E-Commerce domain expertise.

• Experience managing technical priorities within the Backlog

• Strong communication skills with the ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions

• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team's potential
High energy and passionate individual who inspires teammates to reach their maximum potential

Nice-to-have

• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo Graph), GKE, Redis, Amplience CMS, Commercetools, XC-Commerce.
• Knowledge of React JS, NodeJS, CSS, CI/CD pipeline.
Solution architect or similar experience.

About:
At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful . Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty's own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring-hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.