Web Developer – Freelance – REMOTE

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  • Post Date: January 14, 2025
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Job Overview

logoAbout Us
The Company: Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles
of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work. At Dotdigital, collaboration and curiosity pave the way for meaningful connections
and learning opportunities with diverse peers. Our work environment encourages knowledge sharing, fosters exploration, and cherishes creative ideas. Combined, these guide us towards a shared vision in which brands around
the world exceed customer expectations through the adoption of responsible marketing practices.
The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed
customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data silos, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making
and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp,
chat, push, social, ads, and more.

About the RolePrincipal software engineers will have great knowledge of the current architecture of our software systems, which parts don’t align with product requirements
and what should be done to address this whilst balancing short and long-term technical objectives.They should become the first port for discussion when other engineers need to make decisions around technical direction and
should also be able to effectively rollout communication around any directional changes to development managers and team leads.

Key ResponsibilitiesCreate and maintain goal-state architecture diagrams and regularly review our progress towards them. Have regular catchups with Product to ensure these diagrams reflect the direction the business
wants to travel in.Make the big technical calls. After weighing up arguments, be responsible for making any major engineering decisions Dotdigital faces.Modernize our software systems. Define strong bounded contexts that
promote clear engineering focus and component reuse. Prioritize removing legacy technologies and improve our engineering practices. Enable change by reducing system complexity and increasing testability. Improve the developer
experience throughout the development lifecycle.Force multiplier – Help make all teams of engineers more productive. Spend time working with different teams to improve them. This can be during planning phases, complex PRs
or any other channel. Help teams to be more efficient by learning to fail fast.Business risk mitigation. Ensure all major technical risks are surfaced to the business. These include things like the risks of not revisiting
previous technical decisions in light of new product requirements and scalability concerns that could be platform destabilizing.Champion writing high-level guidance on how to approach and solve problems.Finish Projects.
The hardest part of a project is the last 10% – identify and work with teams that are struggling here to get things over the line.Work closely with the Platform Engineering Manager to ensure that Dotdigital’s technical
direction is clear to all functions across the business and aligns with our future product ambitions. Keep current from a technology and domain perspective and where possible make sure Product Owners are aware of what will
be possible in the future.Chief Incident Responder. Learn from incidents, spot re-occurring problems and engage the relevant teams to create a more stable platform.Promote & grow the technical track of progression at
Dotdigital to improve the health of our technical direction.

About YouAbility to work effectively in any of the technologies currently in use at the company from all the codebases to data storage and infrastructureGood
domain knowledge of Dotdigital software systems.Record of leading & delivering complex engineering projects successfully.Excellent reviewer. Record of finding issues (logical, scalable, security, etc) whilst reviewing
architectural design and code.Good verbal & written communication skills.Strong understanding of performance, reliability, scalability and availability in large, distributed software systems.Strong understanding of security
& privacy.Listener – Spend time listening to other technical people before suggesting your ideas.Responsible/Accountable – Always want to prevent the same failure from happening more than once.Leader – Support other
technical people in the business; influence them, reinforce them, and help them succeed.Pragmatist – Know how to deliver business value by balancing short and long-term objectives.Innovator – Stay current with the progression
of technology and put plans in place to take advantage of advancements.Precise – Everything you do should be precise from code to reviews and communication.

Interview Process15min Screening Call with Team Talent30min Interview with the Platform Engineering Manager1-hour interview with Principal Software Engineer and Platform Engineering Director1-hour final interview
with the Platform Team

Some of Our Global BenefitsParental leaveMedical benefitsPaid sick leaveDotdigital dayShare rewardWellbeing rewardWellbeing DaysLoyalty reward

DEI commitmentAs an equal opportunities employer we are committed to equality in all its practices with regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability,
veteran status, or sexual orientation. If you have any additional requirements or adjustments to assist an application then please don’t hesitate to contact us and advise us how we can best support you.

Legal statementNo agencies/recruiters please. We are only accepting applications directly from the applicants. If you are a recruiter, please refrain from reaching out to our staff about this position. Anything
contrary will be treated as unsolicited approach under the applicable data protection law.

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