Company Description

Optimizely is the world's leader in customer experience optimization, allowing businesses to dramatically drive up the value of their digital products, commerce and campaigns through its best in class experimentation software platform. By replacing digital guesswork with evidence-based results, Optimizely enables product and marketing professionals to accelerate innovation, lower the risk of new features, and drive up the return on investment from digital by up to 10X. Over 26 of the Fortune 100 companies choose Optimizely to power their global digital experiences. Optimizely’s impressive customer list includes eBay, FOX, IBM, The New York Times and many more global enterprises.

Job Description

As a QA SDET intern, you'll do everything that a full time Optimizely SDET engineer does! You'll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers; build software automation tools to help detect bugs; read and write design docs; and attend standups and team lunches. And you'll also get to participate in our summer Hackathon.

You'll also get 1:1 mentorship experience with an Optimizely engineer who will make sure that you thrive at Optimizely. Additionally, you will have regular coaching sessions with your manager.

Your summer will be focused on building and contributing to Optimizely’s frontend and backend automation frameworks; while in parallel learning software QA principles and applying them.

What's it like for interns who work at Optimizely?

We treat our interns like full-time employees: your opinions and ideas matter here and can shape the way we build things. Interns have worked on a number of impactful features and products that have made it to the hands of our customers during their summer.

More than shipping code, though, we host offsites for the intern class; in the past, we’ve been to Giants games, escape rooms, and Benihana.

Read what former interns have had to say over on our engineering blog - https://medium.com/engineers-optimizely:

• My Impact as a Summer Intern at Optimizely / YY Wan, Summer 2017 -
  https://medium.com/engineers-optimizely/my-impact-as-a-summer-intern-at-optimizely-c60e5e02223b
   

• My Internships at Optimizely / Ryan Smith, Summer 2015 + Summer 2016 -
  https://medium.com/engineers-optimizely/my-internships-at-optimizely-417aad8572f4
   

• How to Find the Best Time to Post on Facebook / Baraa Hamodi, Summer 2015 https://medium.com/engineers-optimizely/how-to-find-the-best-time-to-post-on-facebook-a995f41d5294

Qualifications

What we're looking for in interns:

• You're passionate, curious, and/or skilled in web application development.

• You have demonstrated skill and enthusiasm for learning about and applying new technologies and open source packages when appropriate.

• You have strong interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other engineers, product managers, designers, and partners outside of Engineering.

• You have some experience with at least one web programming language, like Ruby, Python or Java

• You have some basic familiarity with HTML, CSS and Javascript.

• You want to write clean, modular and testable code.

• Your experience is less important than your enthusiasm for learning and collaboration. For example, it helps to know JavaScript, but we've had frontend interns who arrived here knowing only Java :)

Bonus Points, but not necessary:

• You’re familiar with a backend web stack. We use Python web frameworks like Pyramid and Django, and ship our builds via Docker on AWS and on Google App Engine.

• You are proficient in any of the following: jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX, or React. We use VueJS, NuclearJS, and React on our frontend.

• You have an understanding of closures, prototypal inheritance, DOM manipulation, HTTP, web security and cross browser compatibility challenges.

Additional Information

At Optimizely, we embody inclusion and embrace diversity. We believe in work/life balance and bringing our true selves to work. To that end, we offer best-in-class perks and benefits that support our Optinauts along their career journey with us. Read more about our culture at optimizely.com/careers.

Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Optimizely prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual identity, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, nationality, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or any other unlawful consideration. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.