Software Engineer
Date: May 23, 2023
Location: Dhaka, BD, 1213 BD
Company: Optimizely
Optimizely is known for content, commerce, and optimization with our Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Millions of experiences are served with our platform every single day, helping organizations grow exponentially online. We have the honor of serving some incredible customers – which makes what we do extremely rewarding. Optimizely has over 9,000 brands, from global organizations such as Visa, Sky, Yamaha, and Wall Street Journal to tech innovators like Atlassian, DocuSign, FitBit, and Zillow.
Not only are we financially sound and growing, but we have unicorn status: we exceeded $300M in revenue in 2020, is profitable already, and have all strategic options ahead of us. Optimizely continues to invest and addresses a market opportunity north of $30 billion, providing significant personal career growth opportunities.
We are an inclusive culture with a global team of 1200+ people across the US, Europe, Australia, Bangladesh, UAE, Singapore, and Vietnam. We blend European and American business cultures, emphasizing teamwork, inclusion, and moving fast. People make the difference!
If you are looking to work on the next generation of digital technologies in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment with the best humans, please apply! We’re just getting started...
Introduction
Expert Services is an integral part of Optimizely's Customer Success organization during customer onboarding and post onboarding phases to retain customers and generate revenue. As a Software Engineer for the Expert Services team, you will be responsible for providing engineering solutions by understanding customers pain points, migrating data from other platforms to Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform, providing automated reports, as well as creating and manipulating extensive data through REST APIs.
You will be writing clean code to solve specific problems, managing codebases, manipulating data, developing automated process to provide operational metrics to our clients to scale our business and maintaining internal application from development to deployment which is built with Python and React. Occasionally, you will be talking to our clients to understand their pain points and providing engineering solutions. You will be part of our engineering team and act as a team player, participating in technical discussions and providing technical knowledge and solutions to the team.
Job Responsibilities
- Be a sensible and pragmatic engineer developing simple, high-quality and well-tested minimum viable solutions meeting set requirements and following applicable principles and processes.
- Be passionate about continuous learning, experimenting, adapting, applying, and contributing to innovative technologies and software paradigms.
- Understand the value of modern software engineering practices such as scrum, pair programming, and principles of clean code.
- Take ownership of your contribution to the work for clients, the quality and the long-term maintainability of the contributed code.
- Contribute to discussions with your team on everything from ideation through architecture and design to implementation and support of the products and services.
- Passionately pursue self-improvement and growth as a software engineer, learning from the best.
- Understand customer’s pain point and provide effective and efficient solutions.
Knowledge and Experience
- 2+ years of experience working professionally with modern software engineering practices.
- Proficiency in Python and solid knowledge on CRUD operations using REST frameworks.
- Knowledge on MySql and MongoDB is a must.
- Solid knowledge on CI/CD pipeline.
- You are a backend enthusiast.
- Experience investigating and resolving problems, defects and bugs reported to the team.
- Experience working in an engineering team following requirements provided by customers, stakeholders and technical leaders.
- Excellent English communication skills, verbally and in writing, to effectively communicate progress, issues, obstacles, solutions and points of view.
- Ability to work independently but avoid getting stuck by knowing when to ask for help.
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 where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. We work hard to provide meaningful rewards and development opportunities for our employees, recognizing performance and creating a supportive working environment. You'll also get:
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Reward and recognition programs
- Paid Maternity (16 weeks) & Paternity Leave (12 weeks)
- Unlimited vacation days and flexible working hours in a hybrid environment
- Medical & life insurance for employees and dependents
- Volunteering and opportunities to give back
- Monthly and quarterly regional and global team-building events
- Chance to work with our incredible global team all over the world
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka and free catered lunch when we return to office
- 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
- A free “Hacking day” per month for self-studying and researching any IT-related subjects
- An annual performance-based increment
We currently work from home; however, we plan to return to the office by early Q3, 2023.
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.