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Staff Software Engineer (Kotlin)

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Date: Jan 8, 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.

 

Join us and become part of a company that's empowering people to unlock their digital potential!

Introduction

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Optimizely Data Platform team. This team provides centralized data infrastructure and APIs for Optimizely’s customer data platform which powers our personalization, analysis and data science capabilities across our products. This includes distributed databases, streaming platforms, storage solutions and big data infrastructure.

Our users include both paying customers and other engineers within the company building data products. The Optimizely Data Platform team plays an important role in making it easy and efficient for our users to get accurate data in and out of our systems.

Job Responsibilities

  • - You will build and support products, platforms and tools that provide high leverage to customers and engineering teams
  • - You will drive continuous improvements to the reliability, accuracy, performance, security and cost our data infrastructure
  • - You’ll solve business-critical data and distributed systems engineering problems, utilizing the best languages and technologies for the job.
  • - You work with highly scalable systems that ingest, deduplicate, count, aggregate, store, and archive event data as well as serve real-time analytics insights

Knowledge and Experience

  • - Strong Software engineering experience for 4-6 years
  • - Expertise in object-oriented programming languages like Java
  • - Knowledge of build/release systems and processes.
  • - Deep passion for the infrastructure space and solving complex problems using modern database technology.
  • - Familiarity with microservice architectures and experience building infrastructure platforms and tools
  • - Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like AWS and understanding of scaling and reliability concerns.
  • - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • - Knowledge of container services (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.

Why you’ll succeed

  • - You are curious about how distributed systems operate and fail at scale.
  • - You have an automation mindset. You seek to fully understand problems and then produce workable and efficient solutions.
  • - You reflect and seek feedback on choices and trade-offs in your design process.
  • - You seek context to inform your decisions, and you adapt to changes according to the needs of the business.
  • - You are curious about emerging technologies and are interested in evaluating and adapting where it makes sense.
  • - You are a team player who enjoys collaborating across engineering teams.
  • - You are comfortable engaging in product architecture discussions.
  • - You appreciate working with people from all walks of life, and you work to respectfully engage and collaborate with colleagues regardless of perspective or experience.

Some technologies we work with

  • - Kotlin, Java, Python, Ruby, Typescript• Snowflake, Scylla, Elasticsearch
  • - Kafka, Flink, Storm, Pulsar
  • - Docker, Kubernetes
  • - Terraform
  • - AWS cloud

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.