Software Engineer II
About this role
Introduction
Software Engineer II engineers display an ability to independently deliver on projects of moderate complexity, from design to production, with consistently high quality. They can plan and effectively break down their own work. They make steady, visible progress and communicate issues and unexpected changes to their team, quickly and clearly. They take on a more active role within their team by proactively giving code reviews, helping to define team priorities, identify places where quality best practices are not being followed, and offering feedback to their peers and their manager. They are cultivating a deepening knowledge of their technical or product area as well as a high-level understanding of adjacent product areas. Their solid understanding of Optimizely development practices, ability to write clean code, and accumulated product knowledge enables them to successfully onboard interns or new hires.
Job Responsibilities
- 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
- Has strong debugging and problem solving skills to navigate existing systems, figure out how things work, and get the task done
Knowledge and Experience
- 2-5 years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience coding in an industry-standard language (e.g. Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern PaaS/SaaS products
- Experience with agile delivery workflows and modern software quality techniques like TDD, pair programming, etc.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience
Competencies
Company at a glance
The first all-in-one operating system for marketing
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 help companies around the world orchestrate their entire content lifecycle, monetize every digital experience and experiment across all customer touchpoints – all through Optimizely One, the leading digital experience platform that powers every phase of the marketing lifecycle through a single, AI-accelerated workflow.
Optimizely has nearly 1500 employees across our 21 global offices and has 700+ partners. 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.
At Optimizely, we live each day with a simple philosophy: large enough to serve, small enough to care. Learn more at optimizely.com.
Top Benefits
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Paid maternity leave
- Paid paternity leave
- Flexible vacation days
- Flexible working hours
- Provident fund
- Annual work anniversary leave
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Volunteering opportunities
- Monthly and quarterly team-building events
- Communal transport facilities
- Free catered lunch
- Enablement program
- Soft skill training
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