Senior Staff Software Engineer
Date: Dec 3, 2024
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.
Join us and become part of a company that's empowering people to unlock their digital potential!
Introduction
Senior Staff Software Engineers are highly impactful technical leaders who deeply understand business needs and complex engineering use cases and can work across multiple teams effectively. They identify ambiguous problems, craft robust solutions, define technical roadmaps, and drive execution across systems, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals.
They lead through earned respect and trust, mentoring peers and fostering a collaborative work culture. IC5 engineers exemplify proactive leadership, inspiring others by finding and solving key problems, and by being able to communicate technical decisions and challenges across verticals and various stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
This role requires a focus on backend development and large-scale data-processing, for building and maintaining a high-performance analytics platform. The system is geared towards product and customer analytics for enterprise level businesses.
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing high-performance backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL.
- Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code following industry best practices
- Ensuring database design and queries are optimized for scalability and performance
- Troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving production issues efficiently
- Working as a cross functional subject matter expert across different teams
- Communicate technical challenges and decisions to multiple stakeholders
- Leading efforts in hiring and technical assessments for growing the team
Knowledge and Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, with a focus on building scalable applications
- Experience coding in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.), however deep knowledge and expertise in Java is strongly preferred
- Proficient in relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
- A proven track record of working independently as an individual contributor and collaborating effectively within a team
- 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, microservices, and distributed systems
- A proven track record of working independently as an individual contributor and collaborating effectively within a team
- Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas, discuss trade-offs, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders
- Experience with agile delivery workflows and modern software quality techniques like TDD, pair programming, etc.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern PaaS/SaaS products is a plus
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience
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