Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech! 

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with €42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L’Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Aēsop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty. 

Today, L’Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech positions and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future. 

Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L’Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure. 

YOUR FUTURE TEAM 

While L'Oréal is creating the beauty of the future the Beauty Tech Accelerator is driving change to be the company of the future. We create value by delivering unsurpassed beauty experience for our consumers and by augmenting our collaborators. With 4 Hubs worldwide (Paris, Shanghai, New York, and Singapore), The Beauty Tech Accelerator is a tech transformation catalyst to drive growth & innovation. 

What we do: 

• We create value by augmenting employees with AI-powered products for our strategic métiers
• We catalyze L’Oréal AI, data and tech transformation
• We maintain our innovation edge
• We empower employees & attract tech talents

Today, the Paris Beauty Tech Accelerator hub is seeking a Tech Lead to join a dynamic and multi-disciplinary team with an entrepreneurial mindset.  

Based in Paris, the Tech Lead will be responsible to design, build and support different solutions built under the portfolio of products of the Paris Tech Accelerator. Strong technical leadership, communication, collaboration, and analytical skills are essential for this role, as the Tech Lead will effectively gatekeep the technical solutions, influence technical choices, and drive innovation within the organization. 

What you’ll do 

• Co-build cutting edge tech products with a dynamic Product Team to accelerate our Groupe’s Digital Transformation ambition.
• Participate in the development of Products along with other experts in their respective fields (Data Science, Business Subject-matter-experts, UI/UX, Data Engineering, Data Visualization etc.) and play a dual role of tech-advisory and hands-on delivery expert during the design and development phases
• Dedicate some capacity to identify, test and learn new approaches, technologies, and tools
• Do rapid prototyping in specific scenarios where there is a need to demonstrate product capabilities to the business leads 
• Review, challenge, control and/or develop web applications with our product teams 
• Work across the stack to deliver new features or new web applications from start-to-finish
• Monitor and drive the technical project teams in their web developments to ensure a good level of compliance 
• Provide advisory with our run teams on some bugs correction or features improvement 
• Implement APIs, usable UIs; contribute to their design with the UX teams & POs
• Improve performance and overcome scalability and computation delays for existing applications
• Define and build the Unit & integration tests, to be integrated in the CI process
• Build the project integrations with SonarQube and follow up the Code quality scores 
• Design & build the functional tests scripts  
• Guarantee the implementation of our security requirement in the web Development 
• Contribute to the DevSecOps initiatives and tools
• Monitor and plan for reduction of technical debt on the web applications, during maintenance phase 

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED 

First and foremost, we love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact, proactive and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit. 

Secondly, in this specific position, it will be important for you to have: 

Must Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent experience
• 5 years of experience in full-stack development & technical engineering
• APIs development: Swagger, API management, NodeJS (Express)
• Front end development, React JS: advanced level of experience, Cucumber or Testim for functional testing)
• Experience in the full product lifecycle including gathering technical requirements, solution design, implementation, and production deployment.
• DevOps experience on Cloud platforms (data engineering pipelines, CI/CD, Docker, unit/integration tests, Terraform)
• Experience building Cloud Native Architectures
• Excellent communication in English (both verbal and written) and collaboration with remote and global teams.
• Team player and proactive in proposing solutions when faced with ambiguous tech problems.
• Passion for code simplicity, performance, and details (incl. documentation)

Nice to have:

• Cloud engineering experience (GCP or AWS)
• Data warehousing experience (SQL/Postgres SQL, MongoDB ...) 

LET US GIVE YOU 6 OTHER REASONS TO JOIN US! 

Joining L'Oréal means joining a company that: 

1. Invests in Tech and positions its Tech teams at the heart of its digital transformation strategy.
2. Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate and to build our future.
3. Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home
4. Provides many benefits: VIP staff shop offering our products at a preferential rate, a company restaurant & gym, 60% reimbursement of transportation subscription, a work council offering lots of employee discounts (social & cultural activities, holiday vouchers etc.) and much more!
5. Delivers a powerful and innovative HR policy: dynamic mobility policy, significant investment in employee training, regular re-evaluation of remuneration, numerous innovative HR measures: Time Savings Account, paternity leave, Citizen Day, etc.
6. Is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.

GOOD TO KNOW: THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS  

1. Interview with HR
2. Interview with the Hiring Manager
3. Technical Interview