Senior Software Engineer
Date: Apr 26, 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
Hiring Manager - Pawel Zieba
Introduction
Senior Software Engineers are subject matter experts with mastery in a specific product and/or technical functional area and consistently manage and ship high quality and timely releases that solve complex problems end-to-end within a team. They possess strong technical skills and experience in their areas of expertise that they leverage to mentor junior engineers and to make thoughtful technical tradeoff decisions. They proactively communicate their technical design and decisions through various technical forums. They own the operational excellence of their services/components. They assume increasing levels of leadership roles on technical and/or non-technical (cultural) initiatives and play an influential role in hiring, retaining and growing diversity in the company.
Job Responsibilities
- Drives the delivery of high-quality epics that solve complex problems, with minimum viable solutions, end-to-end, doing work in any part of the stack as may be necessary, to deliver the feature or project
- Work occasionally crosses team lines and is more cross-functional in nature
- Is recognized as a subject matter expert within a technical area; people seek you out for your technical expertise
- Participates in technical interviews as part of the hiring process
- Working hours - Monday to Friday, 2pm - 10pm Dhaka time
Knowledge and Experience
- Strong proficiency with Java or other JVM-based language (Scala, Kotlin), with hands-on experience with JVM-based frameworks and libraries (spring-boot/quarkus, Hibernate, etc.)
- Strong focus on engineering excellence: design patterns, good practices, unit tests, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
- Solid understanding of distributed system concepts: RESTful API, HTTP, asynchronous programming, database management systems
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and in writing
- Experience with JavaScript (extra bonus for ReactJS)
- Extra bonus for experience with Kubernetes and microservice architecture
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.