Software Engineer, Growth
About The Position
Otter.ai is seeking a Software Engineer to join its growth team and improve organic discovery through search engines such as Google and AI assistants such as ChatGPT. The role focuses on enhancing web-page discoverability, performance, and user experience in collaboration with growth, marketing, and engineering partners. The engineer will contribute to the web application and build scalable approaches for SEO improvements, including automation, reusable page templates, and integrations with marketing tools. The role also includes experimentation and analytics, testing, debugging, code review, and exploring new technologies and AI-assisted workflows. Otter.ai describes its mission as making conversations more valuable and its product as an AI-powered tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience developing web applications using a JavaScript framework.
- Proficiency in clean, reusable, optimized HTML/CSS, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of web fundamentals, including how pages are rendered, crawled, and indexed.
- Working knowledge of SEO best practices and experience with tools such as Google Search Console.
- Experience with React and Next.js, including server-side rendering and static generation.
- Familiarity with REST API principles.
- Experience writing unit, integration, and UI tests, and ability to debug code that is reusable, testable, and efficient.
- Interest in exploring and using current development tools and platforms, including AI tools that help scale SEO work.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Webflow or a similar CMS.
- Experience with A/B testing and analytics instrumentation.
- BS or MS in computer science or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to ongoing development and enhancement of the web application to support business goals and improve search visibility.
- Build and improve web pages so they are fast, crawlable, and understandable to search engines and AI tools, with attention to performance and user experience.
- Use Google Search Console and other SEO tools to identify issues and opportunities and translate them into engineering tasks.
- Write clean, maintainable, reusable code following industry best practices and internal standards, including HTML metadata, structured data, and Core Web Vitals.
- Help set up experiments and analytics instrumentation to measure the impact of SEO changes.
- Develop scalable ways to deliver SEO changes faster, such as automation, reusable page templates, and integrations with marketing tools like Webflow.
- Partner with the growth team, external SEO partners, and frontend engineers to incorporate SEO into feature development.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve bugs to improve application quality and stability.
- Conduct testing to ensure security standards are met and the application performs efficiently across platforms and devices.
- Validate and test functionality across browsers, platforms, and devices to ensure a consistent user experience.
- Explore new technologies, tools, and methodologies, including AI-assisted workflows, and share learnings with the team.
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and encourage knowledge sharing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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