Optimizely

We're not here to add to the noise. We're here to cut through it- with AI that actually works for marketers.

From AI-powered content creation to world-class CMS and the industry's most trusted experimentation platform, Optimizely is the tool modern marketers actually want to use. AI-Ready. Set. Go.

10,000+ brands including H&M, PayPal, and Zoom already get it. So do Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, who consistently recognize us as leaders in MarTech.

But here's the thing about building great products: it takes great people. Our 1,600+ Optimizers across 12 global offices are curious, collaborative, and refreshingly human. We don't do corporate speak. We do real conversations, big ideas, and genuinely care for the work we make together.

If you want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of marketing technology — and actually enjoys doing it — you're in the right place.

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Introduction

This position is dedicated to the engineering and advancement of Optimizely Campaign, our premier, enterprise-grade omnichannel marketing automation platform. Optimizely Campaign is a mature, high-performing solution that empowers businesses to design, orchestrate, and analyze highly personalized marketing campaigns across a diverse range of channels - including email, SMS/RCS, mobile and web push, WhatsApp, and print. By leveraging real-time customer data, advanced segmentation, and built-in AI agents, the platform automates complex, multi-step customer journeys and optimizes message delivery timing.

To support this product, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who functions as a subject matter expert with technical mastery in their domain. In this role, you will consistently manage and deliver high-quality, timely releases that address complex, end-to-end problems within an agile team. Leveraging your deep technical expertise, you will make thoughtful architecture and tradeoff decisions, mentor junior engineers, and proactively communicate technical designs across various engineering forums. Additionally, you will own the operational excellence of your services, assume progressive leadership roles on technical and cultural initiatives, and actively contribute to the company's hiring, retention, and diversity efforts.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday (12 PM to 8 PM), Hybrid

Job Responsibilities

As a hands-on member of our high-performing, cross-functional agile development team (one of the Berlin-based teams), your primary responsibilities will include:

Product Development & Maintenance: Active, hands-on contribution to the development, scaling, and maintenance of the Optimizely Campaign platform, ensuring robust performance and reliability.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guiding junior engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, and fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnering closely with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineers within an agile framework to refine requirements and deliver seamless end-to-end features.

Operational Ownership: Monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuously optimizing the performance and security of our core services and components.

In this role you will:

• Develop features for substantial parts of a highly reliable, scalable and performant omni-channel marketing platform sending billions of personalized messages a month.
• Design, implement and run highly scalable data-driven services that ingest, deduplicate, count, aggregate, store, archive, transfer, process and visualize a huge amount of data.
• Communicate requirements as well as technical challenges and decisions to multiple stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvements to the usability, reliability, performance and security of our product.
• Conduct high-quality code reviews.
• Leverage continuous integration processes and software deployments within responsibility of the team

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience designing and developing web applications (specifically with JavaScript/TypeScript (ideally React, frontend focus), Java (backend focus), the Spring framework using different persistence technologies, relational databases like MySQL)
• Profound knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, industry-proven software frameworks and engineering best practices for producing high quality code
• Basic understanding of software architecture principles and distributed systems
• Experience in building, delivering, and maintaining services that comprise modern SaaS products
• Experience with agile delivery workflows (Scrum, Kanban) and modern software quality techniques like TDD, pair programming, etc.
• Good communication skills to articulate ideas, discuss trade-offs and collaborate with the team and with stakeholders (e.g. Product team) also with regards to time shifts due to different office locations

Education

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

Competencies

Displaying Technical Expertise

Critical Thinking

Solving Complex Problems

Demonstrating Initiative

Delivering High Quality Work

Our culture is the most important thing we offer. We continuously aim to provide a high-growth space, both virtually and in person, where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. 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
• Provident Fund
• 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.