Tech Lead

Overview:
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**:
**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.
- 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
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**ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS**:
**Must-have**
- 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
- 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.