who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

About this team

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.

Core Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will lead the design and implementation of complex software systems and features spanning multiple services and components, establishing technical direction for the Lower Funnel area including API design standards, data modeling approaches, and integration patterns while ensuring solutions meet scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.

You will drive technical decisions with broad impact across multiple teams including architecture patterns and technology selections, conduct high-impact code reviews focusing on system design and long-term maintainability, and establish engineering standards and best practices adopted across the domain including testing strategies and deployment procedures.

You will mentor engineers at multiple levels providing guidance on advanced technical concepts and career development, partner with product and business stakeholders on technical strategy and roadmap planning and represent engineering perspective in cross-functional initiatives while leading incident response for critical production issues.

• Drive implementation approaches and coding practices for the domain in collaboration with engineering leadership and product management
• Establish and enforce coding standards, security, testing, and engineering best practices across multiple teams in domain
  
• Lead code quality and design reviews across teams ensuring technical alignment with organizational standards and focusing on implementation quality, security, performance, and long-term maintainability
  
• Mentor engineers at all levels, providing guidance on technical concepts and leadership
  
• Partner with stakeholders to define technical requirements, evaluate implementation options, and align engineering with business outcomes
  
• Provide technical input and implementation perspectives to architects on system design and integration approaches
  
• Lead implementation of complex systems and features spanning multiple services within established architectural frameworks and make decisions with minimal supervision
  
• Write exemplary code demonstrating engineering best practices in critical systems as technical reference for teams
  
• Perform reliability monitoring and support as needed to ensure products meet guest expectations
  
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across complex distributed systems demonstrating deep technical expertise
  
• Lead incident response for major production issues including coordination and post-mortem facilitation
  
• Provide an escalation point and participate in on-call support rotations
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field; Master's degree beneficial, or equivalent experience
  
• 6-10 years of software development experience, building complex systems and driving technical initiatives across teams, or equivalent, ideally in an enterprise organization
  
• Expertise with Single Page Web Apps built on React, JavaScript, Node.js, Webpack and Next.js stack.
  
• Previous experience developing GraphQL APIs
  
• Experience testing JavaScript applications from Unit to E2E
  
• Understanding of web technologies (HTTP, SSL, Headers, Cookies, TCP, Caching)
  
• Experience with CDNs / caching / security / routing rules / etc
  
• Experience with application observability, system-level design, performance
  
• AWS, CI/CD experience and familiarity with IaC and Proxy servers
  
• Experience and interest in DevOps principles and best-practices
  
• Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
  
• Experience developing solutions for retail or eCommerce businesses and other relevant domains such as manufacturing & logistics, supply chain, or corporate shared services.

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.

additional notes

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time for this role.

compensation and benefits package

lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position is from $136,200 - 178,700 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

workplace arrangement

Hybrid

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.

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