Senior Engineer I - Java - International

Lululemon Engineering is dedicated to building secure, reliable, and performant products for our guests and partners. We embrace the philosophies of Agile, DevOps, and SRE to accelerate our development process and provide the most enjoyable, inclusive, and supportive work environment possible. We believe our journey is more fun when it is collaborative, as we focus on the future instead of the past. As an Engineer, you will work as part of a global team supported by our business and architecture partners to help us collaboratively develop and deliver industry-leading technology solutions that drive Lululemon's business goals.

As a Senior Engineer I, you will bring a high level of technical knowledge as well as strong mentoring abilities. You will be counted on as a leader in your technology space as you contribute to all areas of development and operations (pre-production to production). You will work closely with a Technology Manager, using your experience and knowledge to guide a team of Engineers through their day-to-day process, and provide a central escalation point for production concerns. You will be part of an Agile production release team and may perform on-call support functions as needed. As a Senior Engineer I, you would be a primary caretaker of production systems and would maintain a deep understanding of how delivered products are functioning.

Responsibilities:

• Be a main contributor in Agile ceremonies.
• Provide mentorship and facilitate engineering training for a team of Engineers.
• Perform and delegate engineering assignments to ensure production readiness is maintained.
• Conduct research to aid in product troubleshooting and optimisation efforts.
• Conduct research to guide product development and tools selection.
• Provide an escalation point and participate in on-call support rotations.
• Actively monitor key metrics and report on trends.
• Participate in our Engineering Community of Practice.
• Contribute to engineering automation, management or development of production-level systems.
• Contribute to project engineering design and standards verification.
• Perform reliability monitoring and support as needed to ensure products meet guest expectations.
• Ability to assume the leadership/mentorship of Engineers.
• Design and implement scalable, loosely coupled architectures using microservices to enable modular development and rapid deployment.
• Develop high-performance, event-driven applications with Java and Kafka, enabling real-time data streaming and processing.
• Architect, deploy, and manage cloud native solutions on AWS, leveraging its services for scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues using APM tools to ensure optimal system reliability and user experience.
• Apply GitLab and CI/CD best practices to automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster, higher-quality releases.
• Build robust, maintainable back-end services using the Spring Framework (Spring Boot) for rapid development and easy scalability.

Requirements:

• Completed bachelor's degree or diploma (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Software Architecture preferred; candidates with substantial and relevant industry experience are also eligible.
• 8 - 12 years of engineering experience.
• Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and best practices.
• Experience developing solutions for retail or eCommerce businesses and other relevant domains such as manufacturing & logistics, supply chain, or corporate shared services.

Skills

AWS, CI/CD, Cloud, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Java