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 1600 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 motivated Staff Software Engineer for our Content Recommendations Team. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and collaborator, comfortable working cross-team to find the best solutions while considering architecture, cost of development, and cost of ownership.

You must be organised enough to keep up with our fast-moving agile environment and comfortable working across all functions to help shape the future experiences of Optimizely's products. You will be a key player in driving architecture and design decisions for both new features and the underlying infrastructure that supports them

Working Hours: Monday to Friday (2 PM to 10 PM)

Job Responsibilities
You will research new opportunities and determine the architecture and design together with the Engineering Manager, Product Manager, User Experience Designer, and neighbouring teams. You will take time to understand the full problem-space of Content Recommendations, as well as the role of Content Intelligence to assist in our customers' success with their digital experience strategies.

Actively research, prototype, and apply modern AI technologies to enhance modelling and analysis within our Content Recommendations engine, driving our AI-first product strategy.

Define and de-risk the long-term technical roadmap for the Content Recommendations engine. You will be expected to turn high-level business goals into a concrete, phased, and achievable engineering strategy.

Lead the architectural strategy for evolving our Content Recommendations platform, including the continued migration of critical legacy services (PHP, Python, ) to a modern, scalable Kotlin and Kubernetes-based architecture.

Drive technical alignment and high-level architecture decisions that span multiple engineering teams, ensuring our solutions are cohesive and well-integrated with the broader Optimizely ecosystem (e.g., Data Platform, SRE, and other product teams).

Levelling up the team via knowledge sharing, extensive code & design reviews, and prioritizing building common tools, advocating improving development processes and learning.

Reviews and contributes to interview kits for technical roles and provides interview training to engineers.

Knowledge And Experience

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Deep practical understanding of modern AI technologies, with hands-on experience applying LLMs (for text analysis, user behaviour, etc.) and active daily use of AI tools.
• Deep experience in modern Kotlin development, golang, and Typescript.
• Extensive, hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and working directly with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Broad experience with a range of server-side technologies, including legacy systems like PHP, Python, and
• Experience building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern microservice-based SaaS products.
• Experience with agile delivery workflows and modern software quality techniques like TDD, pair programming, etc.
• Experience developing or contributing to development platforms or software frameworks.

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

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
• Vacations days
• Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
• Parental leave (both maternity and paternity)
• Health insurance
• Reproductive benefits for both parents
• Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
• Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
• Free communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
• Free catered lunch every day

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.