Sr Developer - Front End, Hybrid

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.

THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE: 

Our digital guest experience is the defining strategic imperative of the E-Commerce, Front End team. The Senior Developer is responsible for supporting, planning and coordinating functional and technical activities related to the user interface layer of our large-scale, guest facing, web e-commerce applications and websites. You’ll 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.  You will leverage the latest front-end technologies, tools, and frameworks to produce UIs that push industry standards for accessibility, usability, and performance. We want someone who can not only develop amazing experiences, but also collaborate effectively with our award-winning Visual Design, User Experience, Development Operations, and Java Services teams.

YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY: 

• UI Development - Develop scalable UI for seamless integration across multiple screen sizes. Must have better than intermediate level knowledge on NodeJS (plus frameworks like Koa or Express), JavaScript (plus frameworks like React/Angular/Vue *React preferred), HTML5, CSS3 (expert level CSS preferred) and responsive web development tools. Must be able to integrate front-end solutions with multiple data sources, including XML, JSON, and custom APIs. Preprocessors like LESS/SASS along with JavaScript bundling with Webpack.
• Delivery Leadership - Must have experience working with groups of 2-8 UI Developers in an onshore/offshore model with agile delivery methods. Should have experience collaborating with enterprise UX standards and brand governance teams. 
• Development Testing - Performs the execution of given test scripts under supervision. Records results and reports issues. Develops an understanding of the role of testing within system development, as a tool for design improvement as well as a validation process.
• Problem Management - Investigates problems in systems, processes and services. Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Release Deployment - Uses the tools and techniques for specific areas of release and deployment activities. Administers the recording of activities, logging of results and documents technical activity undertaken.
• Requirements Definition & Management - Uses established techniques as directed to identify current problems and elicit, specify and document business functional, data and non-functional requirements.
• Systems Integration - Assists in the software builds from software source code. Performs tests as defined in an integration test specification, records the details of any failures, and carries out fault diagnosis relating to simple failures, reporting the results of the diagnosis in a clear and concise manner.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Process/Tools Champion – Leverage field experience to research and install improvements to our delivery methodology as related to atomic/modular design integration, testing practices (Unit, End-to-End, BDD), API integration, front-end build tools, accessibility standards, security best practices, continuous integration procedures, error logging, performance optimization, and the like.

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or applicable work experience
• 5 years of development experience with ReactJS
• 8 years of experience in NodeJS, JavaScript, CSS and HTML5
• Infrastructure experience (i.e. Webpack, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx)
• Proactive and able to catch issues before failures.
• Possess a strong work ethic; takes pride in producing a quality product.
• Work with production support and project consultants in an onshore / offshore model
• Support off-hours production issues and code deployments as needed.
• Minimal travel required (i.e. training, conferences)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in developing consumer facing websites.
• Ecommerce experience.
• Apollo GraphQL experience.

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.