Senior Software Engineer, Application Backend

This job is being posted to Silicon Florist because it is potentially open to remote candidates. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to learn about Episerver before applying. I am a PDX based remote Episerver employee. [email protected]

Senior Software Engineer, Application Backend

We start the new chapter of Episerver as we proudly join forces with Optimizely to create a new wave of digital leaders through transforming digital experience creation and optimization. Episerver is consistently ranked as a market leader in digital experience creation, supporting the digital journeys of 9,000+ global brands, while Optimizely is the world’s leader in experience optimization. Combined, these two powerhouses create the most advanced digital experience platform in the industry. The combination of creation and optimization will enable companies across all segments and industries to take advantage of what content, commerce, personalization and experimentation can bring to their business and to their customers.

The scale of our product has created tremendous potential for growth with Episerver + Optimizely – growth of teams, growth of influence, and growth of personal careers. 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...

Experimentation is the foundation of all human knowledge. As we continue to enhance our enterprise-class Digital Experience Platform, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Application Backend to help lead and create our next wave of services and architectural improvements. We want you to be idealistic but pragmatic, creative but able to embrace elegant simplicity in both code and infrastructure. Scale and performance are part of everything we build. You’ll be building the foundation that empowers billions of experiences across the world’s leading websites and digital experience providers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Application Backend you will:

• Design and implement next generation core application backend components
• Identify when to replace and when to rebuild legacy systems
• Design and enhance all systems to be Enterprise Class (Reliability, Scalability, Performance, Security, etc.)
• Design and build systems that have monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Educate internal customers on how to best venture into our codebase
• Organize, plan, and lead large projects through to completion

About you:

• You have 5+ years’ experience in scalable technical projects
• You have demonstrated experience in deconstructing a monolith application into services
• You have demonstrated experience in designing and building high-performance, highly available and scalable services/APIs
• You find satisfaction in being a force multiplier for your colleagues
• You look at engineering problems holistically and have developed best in class products
• You stay on top of technical trends and know how to use them pragmatically
• You are self-motivated, yet still enjoy working in partnership across an organization

About us:

• Work with colleagues that get you fired up every day and are super smart!
• Learn more about our engineering organization by visiting our blog
• We’re engaged in the Developer Community. We are after-all not just developers but we are also building products for developers. You’ll see us at various Meetups, such as PyBay (Bay Area), Python (Austin) and more
• We’re not locked into a specific technology stack. You’ll be working with and picking the latest technologies to do the job right. Some of the technologies we work with include: Python, Django, Celery, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Jenkins, Linux, CircleCI, Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Monitoring, and observability tooling