Optimizely is looking to build out experiences in Opal, a next-generation AI-enabled marketing automation suite, by designing scalable backend APIs, powering agentic AI workflows, and integrating custom tools. This role will shape the platform that lets teams orchestrate, automate, and extend digital marketing capabilities across Optimizely's product suite.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering with deep expertise in Python or Go, or any industry standard language, although Python is preferred.
- 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, amd 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)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- For Full stack roles understanding of frontend components and React framework.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain robust high-performance backend systems for Opal, enabling seamless workflow orchestration, tool/plugin 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
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas, discuss trade-offs, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders.
