Optimizely Developer

About Remarkable

We are Remarkable – a digital experience agency built to power transformative customer journeys. We partner with ambitious, forward-thinking brands to create high-performing platforms, products, and content strategies through platforms like Sitecore, Optimizely, and Microsoft Dynamics. With deep expertise across cloud, content, commerce, and CRM, we help brands across sectors - especially B2B - connect with their audiences, accelerate performance, and scale with confidence. We're collaborative, curious, and outcome-focused. We thrive on solving complex challenges and delivering work that makes a difference. If you're passionate about elevating content from a tactical asset to a strategic advantage, this is the place for you.

Purpose of Role

To be a key member of the Optimizely Engineering team to develop, support and maintain technology solutions for clients, partners and internal Remarkable Group solutions. This is a mid-level position. The role will also work with other members of the Engineering team in taking technical responsibility and ownership of elements of technical solution delivery assigned as part of a project

Key Accountabilities

  • Developing, and maintaining Optimizely centric based solutions as well as bespoke solutions written using .NET
  • Implementing Optimizely (and associated technologies) and bespoke software solutions using .NET Core / .NET Framework, C#12 and ASP.NET Core.
  • Collaborating effectively with QA, BA, PM, DevOps and other members of the wider Engineering and agency teams.
  • Accountable for the timely and technical quality delivery of assigned tasks.
  • Proactively driving the technical definition of software delivery project planning (scope, time estimates, technical skills).
  • Ensuring technical implementation and delivery processes (i.e. Unit testing, Source control, Coding Standards, Deployments) and technical documentation are followed, improved and evolved as practices mature.
  • Ensure that the technical objectives of the Optimizely Engineering team are met - ensuring that our reputation for Optimizely and .NET technical excellence is maintained and excelled

Required Skills and Competencies

  • Good Optimizely CMS development expertise using versions 11 and12.
  • Good knowledge of coding and architectural patterns and coding approaches.

Good commercial expertise in the following:

  • .NET Framework 4.5+, .NET Core 6+, C#12, ASP.NET Core MVC / Razor Pages
  • Source control (i.e. Git)
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • HTML, CSS / SASS
  • Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • A collaborative worker and keen to work with a diversely skilled team.
  • Ability to communicate technology solutions to non-technical external stakeholder and parties

Desirable Skills and Competencies

  • Optimizely Content Cloud Certified Developer.
  • Azure Certifications.
  • SQL Server / Azure SQL using Entity Framework Core.
  • Familiarity with Blazor WebAssembly for building interactive client-side web applications.
  • Azure Cloud Services.
  • Azure DevOps.

Previous Experience and Skills

  • Developing large scale Optimizely CMS DXP solutions.
  • Developing bespoke web applications using .NET Core.
  • Understanding of the full software development life cycle – Ideally Agile/Scrum.
  • Experience working in a full technical project team, ideally for a digital agency or technical digital consultancy.
  • Experience in working across multiple streams of work concurrently – involving several clients.

Job Details

Company
Remarkable
Location
Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted