Lululemon

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 Retail Engineering team is dedicated to building secure, reliable, and performant products for our educators and guests. 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. Our team is fast-paced and taking on exciting new initiatives to support a fast-growing business. We strive to adopt leading-edge technology and seek to improve on the solutions continuously. We are not afraid to try new things, have fun, and encourage each other to take on new challenges. We support each other in growing professionally and personally. We fail forward and learn from our mistakes, thus creating a better path ahead. We create space for team members to share feedback and ideas that can help us continually grow as an organization. As a Staff 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 Staff Engineer in the iOS domain, you will work as the technical leader within the Retail Engineering space, leading foundational work that will be leveraged by multiple teams and multiple iOS engineers. 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). As a Staff Engineer, you will dedicate a fair amount of time to architecture on our mobile app codebase, tech debt backlog strategies, and defining implementation patterns that will help our engineers develop features on their roadmaps. You will work very closely with multiple iOS Engineers acting as a mentor and lead to them. You will help elevate their technical skills, executing code reviews, and improving the overall code quality of submitted code. You will evangelize and train Engineers on development patterns and enforce a consistent implementation strategy across all teams of our mobile apps. You will be considered the technical owner of the production system(s) you work on and focus on how your product(s) are delivered and how to optimize them for efficiency, security, and reliability.

• Act as a mentor, team lead, and escalation point to our iOS Engineering community within Retail.
• Create a technical roadmap to ensure we’re using the latest and greatest Apple technologies.
• Hold engineers accountable for following lululemon architectural and development standards
• Accountable for the codebases for our mobile apps by owning the tech debt roadmap, and training for other Engineers.
• Define standards, implementation patterns, and be involved in mobile app architecture in partnership with our Digital and Retail engineering teams.
• Participate in code reviews, and code owner activities.
• Conduct research to aid in product development and tools selection
• Act as an escalation point for production emergencies.
• Facilitate an Engineering Community of Practice for your product(s)
• Contribute to engineering automation, management, or development of production level systems.
• Own reliability for a defined set of production systems
• Help define the tech debt roadmap for the mobile app product.

• Investigate user trends and feedback to evolve target platform.
• Collaborates with Architecture, Security and Operations throughout product development life cycle.

Qualifications:

• 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+ years of engineering experience in Swift
• 5+ years of experience leading teams of iOS engineers
• 5+ years of experience working in Point of Sale, eCommerce, or Retail domains.
• Advanced understanding of Apple mobile technologies (MDM, Swift, Objective-C, MDM)
• Advanced understanding of mobile app development architecture patterns
• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD principles and best-practices. 
• Working knowledge of AWS Cloud components
• Working knowledge of enterprise level systems in Inventory, Commerce, Payment, Merchandising, or Order Management systems
• Experience working with bug tracking and task management software such as JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to assume the leadership/mentorship of Engineers

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
Authorization to work in the United States is required 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  $148,000-$194,300 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 and, 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

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

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