Manager, Software Engineering
Date: Feb 11, 2025
Location: Dhaka, BD, 1212 BD
Company: Optimizely
At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.
At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
Introduction
A Manager, Software Engineering responsibly leads all aspects of an engineering team’s people, process and delivery. They help individuals on their team grow, create healthy team dynamics, drive improvements to their team’s processes and metrics, grow their team based on business needs, partner well with stakeholders from other disciplines and teams, and help adapt to change effectively. By doing so, they ultimately run a reliable team that predictably delivers business value in line with the company’s business strategy.
Job Responsibilities
This role seeks for a hands-on engineering manager valuing the unique opportunity to build and grow a product engineering team from the ground up.
- Leading a cross-functional software engineering team you will have a major impact on the future development of our omni-channel campaign management SaaS platform and its integration with Optimizely One.
- Drive the success of your team with end-to-end responsibility for designing, implementing, running and optimizing a highly reliable, scalable and performant omni-channel marketing platform sending billions of personalized messages a month.
- You will manage business goals, contribute to product strategy and develop your team.
- You will be communicating requirements as well as technical challenges and decisions to multiple stakeholders.
Knowledge and Experience
- 5+ years of experience developing large scale web applications ideally using JavaScript/TypeScript, Java and Spring
- 3+ years of experience leading high-performing cross functional engineering teams
- Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas, discuss trade-offs, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders
- Strong working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, design patterns and principles, and engineering best practices for producing high quality code
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles, and distributed systems
- Experience with agile delivery workflows and modern software quality techniques like TDD, pair programming, etc.
- Experience building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern SaaS products
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience.
Our culture is the most important thing we offer. We continuously aim to provide a high-growth space, both virtually and in person, where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. Our new, cutting-edge office space in Dhaka is a testament to our dedication to enhancing your work experience. This state-of-the-art workspace features open workstations, a fully equipped kitchen, a nap room for relaxation, a tranquil zen garden, and an entertaining area, all designed to provide you with the ideal environment to thrive and grow.
As part of our commitment to you, here are other benefits and perks you can expect:
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Paid Maternity (4 months) & Paternity Leave (12 weeks)
- Flexible vacations days and working hours
- Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
- Comprehensive medical & life insurance for you and your dependants
- Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
- Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
- Monthly and quarterly regional and global team-building events
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
- Free catered lunch every day
- An agile performance review process that encourages ongoing transparency between managers and direct reports
- Enablement program and soft skill training to support internal career growth and development
At Optimizely, our standardized language is English, and it is crucial to have good English communication skills to be successful in your global role. All our external and cross-location communication is done in US English (en-us), but internally you can speak in whichever native language you most identify with.
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.