Staff 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.

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

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Introduction
Staff Software Engineers are highly impactful technical leaders who deeply understand business needs and complex engineering use cases and can work across multiple teams effectively. They identify ambiguous problems, craft robust solutions, define technical roadmaps, and drive execution across systems, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals.

They lead through earned respect and trust, mentoring peers and fostering a collaborative work culture. IC4 engineers exemplify proactive leadership, inspiring others by finding and solving key problems, and by being able to communicate technical decisions and challenges across verticals and various stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities
We are looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer (Python / TypeScript/ React) to join one of our core engineering teams for building out experiences in Opal - powering agentic AI workflows, designing scalable backend APIs, crafting delightful user experiences, and integrating custom tools - for Optimizely's next‑generation AI enabled marketing automation suite. This role will shape the platform that lets teams orchestrate, automate, and extend digital marketing capabilities across Optimizely's product suite.

• Work across the stack to architect, implement, and maintain robust high-performance systems for Opal, enabling seamless workflow orchestration, deep production integrations, etc.
• Develop, document, and deploy custom agentic workflows for deep product integrations and enhancing user experiences across Optimizely products
• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code following industry best practices
• Ensuring database design and queries are optimized for scalability and performance
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving production issues efficiently
• Working as a cross functional subject matter expert across different teams
• Communicate technical challenges and decisions to multiple stakeholders
• Own technical delivery across code quality, test automation, CI/CD, and deployment for API-backed Opal pipeline services and SDKs
• Drive best practices in scalability, authentication, security, compliance, and cloud-native architecture for enterprise-grade solutions.

Knowledge And Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering with deep expertise Python / TypeScript, or any similar industry standard languages.
• Deep understanding of front-end components and the React framework, with experience in building front-end components/applications with newer MVC frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in designing, building, and scaling RESTful APIs, asynchronous/event-driven architectures, or distributed systems, and integrating external services in production.
• Familiarity with agentic patterns, and hands-on experience with agentic/AI workflow orchestration, SDK-driven extensibility, and modern LLM APIs (Gemini, OpenAI, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, design patterns and principles, and engineering best practices for producing high quality code, and familiarity with modern software quality practices (TDD, pair programming, CI/CD)
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and secure user authentication (e.g. OAuth/OpenID)
• Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas, discuss trade-offs, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders.
• A proven track record of working independently as an individual contributor and collaborating effectively within a team
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience working in agile, fast-moving environments with a focus on shipping high-quality code and robust solutions.
• Experience building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern PaaS/SaaS products is a plus

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

Competencies
Displaying Technical Expertise

Communicating Effectively

Solving Complex Problems

Demonstrating Initiative

Delivering High Quality Work

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.