Software Engineer II

Introduction

We are looking for a Software Engineer for one of our core CMS product teams in central Stockholm, to help us shape the future experiences of Optimizely’s products and offerings. These are exciting times: We’re at the top of industry analyst rating, we have just released a SaaS version of our CMS with the innovative Visual Builder. Our engineers are excited to take the product they love and have been working on for many years to the next level. And here is your opportunity to join them, as we are expanding these teams.

There are opportunities regardless of if you have a more back-end or a more front-end focused profile. You would be joining a group of teams with many very senior engineers with diverse skills, so personal and cultural fit will be a key differentiator alongside skills and experience.

You are self-motivated and like to collaborate with your colleagues to find the best solution that solves the problem, considering architecture, cost of development and cost of ownership. We value building robust solutions that can live on and evolve over many years, while always prioritizing spending our time on what provides the most value possible to our customers. You are comfortable with working in a fast-moving agile environment and working closely with User Experience Designers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders.

We work in hybrid mode and collaborate closely, in the office as well as remotely. We value work-life balance and while we are a global company and collaborate across time zones we prioritize respecting local working hours, family commitments as well taking care of your physical and mental health. We believe you will learn a lot here, we also believe that you bring new knowledge and ideas to us. We want you to thrive here for a long time, as many of us have. Optimizely is the best place to be your best!

As a Software Engineer, you will...

• Implement and document simple, secure, scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective software solutions.
• Ensure product quality by developing and applying thorough automated testing techniques.
• Follow processes, practices and decisions as set out by people leaders as well as technical leaders and stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions within your agile team.
• Participate in project planning including requirements elicitation, design, task refinement and scoping.
• Handle incidents as well as escalations from partners and customers.
• Pursue growth by maintaining an awareness of the state of technology, engineering techniques, and best practices.å
• Ownership of small epics or moderate-sized portions of larger epics within a single delivery team
• Solves problems of moderate complexity with high-quality, minimum viable solutions, from design to completion
• Able to investigate and deliver fixes for moderately complex bugs that may have no obvious solution
• Participates in the technical design process by carefully reading and providing feedback on design docs from their team or authoring their own design docs
• Provides high-accountability on-call support, if applicable to the team they are on
• Actively contributes to incident retrospectives, and process-related ceremonies and does their part to drive follow-up tasks to completion
• Participates in identifying operational metrics and building dashboards to measure these

About You

• You have at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, or corresponding level of relevant education.
• You have at least 3 years of experience working professionally with modern development practices.
• You are proficient in developing (web) applications using modern development practices using frontend technologies like React and Typescript and/or Microsoft technologies like C# .NET (Core).
• You have experience investigating and resolving problems, defects and bugs reported to the team.
• You have experience working in a development team, following requirements provided by stakeholders, and implementing solutions and architecture designed by technical leaders.
• You are a team player who enjoys solving problems collaboratively. You also have the ability to work independently but avoid getting stuck by knowing when to ask for help.
• You have worked in a software organization with defined processes, and value following as well as seeking improvements to those processes.

Experiences with the following technologies are also advantageous:

• Designing and building solutions based on Optimizely CMS or other CMS/DXP platforms
• (MS)SQL
• Building, maintaining and supporting a SaaS service at scale.
• CI/CD and DevOps, including modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• HTTP APIs / REST services / GraphQL
• Datadog APM