Senior Product Engineer – Platform Learning

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 0 minutes ago

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Optimal

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

Media • B2B

Optimal is a mission-critical digital marketing and media agency that combines proprietary audience data, proprietary technology, and performance-focused marketing solutions to drive measurable results across digital advertising, paid media, SEO, and audience analytics. Optimal partners with brands and organizations across consumer, entertainment, healthcare, public affairs, and B2B markets to increase conversions, lower acquisition costs, and optimize campaign ROAS through data-driven strategies and creative execution.

📋 Description

• Ship customer-facing product: Design, build, and ship customer-facing research features alongside the team. Platform is your strength, but delivering product is core to the role • Build the platform muscle: Architect and develop the infrastructure and automation that lets us ship fast into scalable, observable, secure, and reliable systems • Be the muscle when it gets spicy: Step up as the engineer the team leans on when the hard platform problems hit, from thorny scaling and reliability challenges to tricky deploys • Work across the full stack: Deliver across Ruby on Rails and AWS, with enough frontend (React) to contribute across the product • Champion reliability and security by design: Bring a strong operational and security perspective to product development, influencing architecture and helping the team adopt pragmatic practices • Contribute to the Platform Guild: Represent the Innovation team in a cross-team group of platform-leaning engineers that keeps tabs on Optimal's overarching platform needs • Shape product direction: Stay close to the problem space and user needs, actively shaping where the product goes through hands-on exploration • Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with designers, product, and AI engineers to prototype, validate, and refine new product ideas • Set the technical bar: Contribute to architecture decisions, improve how we ship and operate software, and mentor others on the team

🎯 Requirements

• Senior full-stack engineer: Deep, hands-on experience building and shipping product across the stack, deployed on AWS • Platform and DevOps strength: Hands-on experience with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and operating software in production. This is where you're strongest • Strong backend depth: Strong Ruby on Rails experience (or equivalent), with enough frontend (React) to deliver across the product • Product-minded with a platform lean: You enjoy building customer-facing products, and you care deeply about how software is deployed, operated, and secured in production • Pragmatic problem-solving: You see the bigger picture and break it into actionable steps that solve the right problems efficiently • Leadership and ownership: You're comfortable leading projects and taking responsibility for outcomes, from idea through delivery and beyond • AI-curious: An interest in integrating modern AI tools into user-facing products, and in using AI to build better software, faster • Team collaborator: You thrive in open, creative, cross-functional environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary that reflects your skills and experience • Opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) to help you benefit from the long-term success of the company • Annual wellbeing allowance and support • Generous annual learning and development support • Home office set-up support • 4 weeks annual leave plus an additional day off on your birthday • Opportunities for professional growth and development • Flexible, remote-first working (our HQ is based in Wellington, NZ, but this role can be based anywhere in New Zealand or Australia)