Tech Lead

OVERVIEW

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self‑determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start‑up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are. We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no‑holds‑barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

COMPANY

Ulta, Inc.

LOCATION

1000 Remington Blvd., Suite 120, Bolingbrook, IL 60440

TITLE

Back-end Technical Lead

HOURS

Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

DUTIES

Collaborate 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. Design and implement 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. Propose design solutions, conduct proof of concepts, estimate development effort, and write 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.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related. Five (5) years in any occupation with software development experience. Five (5) years in any occupation with software development experience; Experience designing, programming, and implementing large information systems; 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; Java Stack: Java/JEE v8 and above, Maven/Gradle, Spring Boot, Spring, web services, Junit, SonarQube, Swagger/OAS 3.0; Monitoring tools such as DynaTrace, NewRelic, MATor JProfiler; Mocking frameworks such as Mockito, EasyMock or PowerMock; Message streaming platforms such as Kafka, SQS, SNS, or Azure Service Bus; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, or similar platforms; Cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure; GIT / Bitbucket repository and understanding of branching strategies; E‑Commerce domain; and Experience managing technical priorities within the Backlog.

SALARY

$153,317 - $154,317 per year

EEO STATEMENT

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr ULTA Beauty