Staff Software Engineer - Checkout and Post Purchase Web Experiences

Lululemon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead lower-funnel web checkout and post-purchase experiences on lululemon.com. This role sets enterprise engineering standards and architectural patterns, mentors engineers, and delivers multi-team improvements focused on reliability, developer productivity, and guest purchase journeys.

Role Overview

The lower funnel experiences teams are a global development group responsible for web checkout and post-purchase experiences on lululemon.com. The scope includes critical guest flows from adding items to a shopping bag through delivery, as well as post-purchase capabilities such as tracking, order management, and returns. The team works closely with services teams, DevOps, and product teams to build responsive, easy to use experiences that support the purchase process.

Core Responsibilities

• Establish strategic engineering standards and architectural patterns used across the organization, including API guidelines, testing frameworks, and operational best practices.
• Advise on architectural decisions in partnership with enterprise architects, providing expertise on system design.
• Combine hands-on coding in critical areas with advisory responsibilities across teams, ensuring solutions deliver measurable business value.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, including emerging technical leaders, and address critical engineering challenges spanning multiple systems.
• Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, code quality, and system reliability at organizational scale.
• May require availability outside standard business hours, including on-call support, based on business needs.

Additional Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise software solutions and technical frameworks across multiple teams by establishing coding patterns and practices that scale.
• Lead complex multi-team initiatives with minimal supervision, making independent technical decisions while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Write exemplary code in critical areas, applying best-in-class engineering practices when deep expertise is required.
• Consult principal engineers and enterprise architects on architectural decisions, including implementation feasibility, scalability, and operational implications.
• Prototype and recommend technology options and tools based on evaluation, team capabilities, and implementation requirements.
• Define engineering and coding standards adopted organization-wide, including testing strategies, development workflows, and quality practices.
• Lead technical design reviews across the organization, providing guidance on scalability and maintainability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience; Master’s preferred.
• 9-12 years of software development experience defining technical strategy and establishing engineering standards across the organization, or equivalent.
• Proven record of writing exemplary code in critical areas requiring deep technical expertise and establishing coding and quality standards adopted at an organizational level.
• Demonstrated ability to decompose highly ambiguous technical challenges into effective, non-over-engineered solutions, anticipating technical impacts and trade-offs across multiple systems and teams at enterprise scale.
• Experience designing enterprise integration solutions and establishing implementation patterns adopted across the organization.
• Experience defining organizational operational strategies and reliability practices, including familiarity with championing SLO/SLI frameworks, cost optimization, and platform reliability at scale.
• Ability to establish and articulate technical strategy aligned with business objectives and strategic initiatives.
• Extensive expertise building and maintaining secure, reliable, and responsive web applications using React, JavaScript, Node, Nextjs, and GraphQL.
• End-to-end experience with infrastructure-as-code pipelines for build, packaging, and deployment using Gitlab, AWS, and Kubernetes to enable reliable and repeatable practices.

Technology Stack

• React
• JavaScript
• Node
• Nextjs
• GraphQL
• Gitlab
• AWS
• Kubernetes

Compensation and Location

• Location: Seattle, WA (hybrid)
• Compensation: USD 177,500 - 233,000 per year
• Workplace arrangement: Hybrid with onsite work minimum 4 days per week

Benefits

• Competitive annual bonus program (subject to program eligibility requirements for permanent employees)
• 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

Authorization to Work

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Lululemon is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

Team Values

• 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.