Senior Software Engineer

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.

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Introduction
We are looking for a Senior 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.

Optimizely is also at the forefront of AI innovation with Opal AI - our advanced AI platform that empowers marketers and developers to create, personalize, and optimize digital experiences with greater speed and intelligence than ever before

In this opportunity, we are looking for a senior engineer focused on full stack Javascript. The ideal candidate would contribute to the development of a world class SDK for our services in full stack Javascript, and ideally for additional tech stacks. 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

As a Senior Software Engineer you are a subject matter expert with high level of proficiency in your technical area. You use your skills and experience to mentor others and to make thoughtful technical tradeoff decisions

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 from home. 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 Senior Software Engineer, You Will..

• Design, implement and document simple, secure, scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective software solutions.
• Ensure product quality by developing and applying thorough automated testing techniques.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions within your agile team as well as across teams and products.
• Contribute to project planning including requirements elicitation, design, task refinement and scoping.
• Manage incidents as well as escalations from partners and customers.
• Mentor and share with other engineers and team members.
• Pursue growth by maintaining an awareness of the state of technology, engineering techniques, and best practices

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 5-7 years of experience working professionally with modern development practices.
• You have multiple years of experience building full-stack web applications covering both client side and server side using modern frameworks.
• You have significant experience with full stack Javascript websites, e.g. Nodejs/NextJS, server side rendering, static site generation etc, and are approaching expert level knowledge in this area.
• You have experience with or at least are willing to work with other tech stacks, in particular ASP.NET and React.
• You are a real team player who enjoys solving problems together, and a great communicator. Ideally you have built full-stack Javascript applications backed by a (headless) CMS or other backend accessed via GraphQL, REST or similar API.
• Ideally you have also built web applications on services as Vercel, Netlify or similar.

Education
Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience

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