Staff Software Engineer (Berlin)

Optimizely is focused on unlocking digital potential and we are the recognized category leader in Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and created the category for A/B Testing and experimentation software. We have incredible customers – isn’t that one of the most important aspects of looking for your next job? Optimizely has over 9,000 brands from global organizations such as Visa, Sky, Yamaha, Wall Street Journal to tech innovators like Atlassian, DocuSign, FitBit and Zillow.

Not only are we financially sound and growing but we have unicorn status: Exceeded $300M in revenue in 2020, is profitable already, and has all strategic options ahead of itself. Optimizely continues to invest and addresses a market opportunity north of $30 billion, providing significant personal career growth opportunities.

We are an inclusive culture with a global team of 1200+ people across the US, Europe, Australia, and Vietnam. We blend European and American business culture with emphasis on teamwork, inclusion, and moving fast. People make the difference!

If you are looking to work on the next generation of digital technologies in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment, apply! We’re just getting started...

We are looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our Optimizely Campaign team. This team provides our customers with a market-leading omni-channel marketing solution.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will develop new and improve existing product features following clean code principles and test-driven development as part of an agile, cross-functional team
• You will have the chance to work across the products full tech stack.
• You will drive continuous improvements to the usability, reliability, performance, security, and cost of our product.
• You will solve business-critical engineering problems utilizing great technologies for the job.
• You will work with highly scalable data-driven systems that ingest, deduplicate, count, aggregate, store, archive, transfer, process and visualize data.

Desired qualifications:

• Strong Software engineering expertise
• Several years of professional experience developing large-scale web applications with JavaScript, Java, the Spring framework and different persistence technologies
• Experience with React and TypeScript
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Fluent English, ideally confident to also communicate in German

Why you’ll succeed:

• You have a great interest in customer outcome and user experience.
• You are curious about how distributed systems operate and fail at scale.
• You have an automation mindset.
• You seek to fully understand problems and then produce workable and efficient solutions.
• You seek context to inform your decisions, and you adapt to changes according to the needs of the business.
• You reflect and seek feedback on choices and trade-offs in your design process.
• You are curious about emerging technologies and are interested in evaluating and adapting where it makes sense.
• You are a team player who enjoys inspiring colleagues and collaborating across engineering teams.
• You are comfortable engaging in product architecture discussions.
• You appreciate working with people from all walks of life, and you work to respectfully engage and collaborate with colleagues regardless of perspective or experience.

Some technologies we work with:

• Java, Spring
• JavaScript/Typescript, React, HTML/CSS
• REST and SOAP services
• MySQL, Hadoop, HBase, Elastic Search, Kafka
• Linux, Git, Maven, TeamCity

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.