About Optimaze

Are you looking to make a once in a lifetime impact on climate change by reducing cloud waste? Are you ready to join a fast growing startup early, enjoy lots of responsibility, and help accelerate business growth? Then Optimaze is the right place for you. 

We are looking to change the cloud financial management paradigm. The existing solutions are still resulting in 30%+ cloud wastage for enterprises, and at today’s cloud scale that’s not good enough. We help customers go beyond centralised FinOps and get to a decentralised self service optimisation culture, allowing them to focus on their core business. We equip business leaders with granular metrics and governance to make the right business decisions. We do it at an unrivalled scale, with a unique, outcome aligned business model. It is our vision to empower every stakeholder in an organization to eliminate technology wastage, creating a better planet in the process. We are early in our journey, so this is perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your for Applicants intake form.

About the role

Full Stack Software engineers create the software we ship to our users. You will focus on front-end development, creating world-class, AI centric user interfaces. As a member of our core product team, you'll join us in inventing a new, better way to operate technology at scale and better the planet. Motivated senior AND junior engineers may apply. 

Responsibilities

• Design, Build, and Operate: Take ownership of significant parts of the platform, driving the end-to-end development lifecycle from ideation and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.

• Full-Stack Integration: Contribute across the technical stack – make sure the front-end is neatly integrated with back-end systems – to deliver impactful services that delight our customers.

• Champion Efficiency: Embody our value of "Efficiency over complexity" by building pragmatic, maintainable, and highly performant software that directly contributes to reducing cloud waste for our customers and ourselves.

• Collaborate Closely & Drive Shared Vision: Work hand-in-hand with the founding team to shape the product, make key UX decisions, and translate our shared vision and understanding of customer needs ('Work backwards from the customer') into impactful experiences. Ensure tight alignment and shared understanding through open, direct, and continuous communication. Clearly articulate technical decisions and trade-offs.

• Drive Technical Excellence: Contribute to defining best practices, improving code quality, enhancing system reliability, and fostering a culture of technical rigor within the engineering team.

• Embrace Ownership: Proactively identify opportunities for improvement, whether in the product, our infrastructure, or our processes, and take the initiative to drive positive change ("Think like an owner").

About you

• Adaptive & Versatile Problem-Solving: You thrive on tackling complex, ambiguous challenges across a broad technical landscape (backend, frontend, data, AI, infra). You effectively break down problems, develop robust solutions, and demonstrate a strong eagerness to learn and adapt your skills to new technologies and domains as needed.

• Builder DNA: You combine a strong bias for action with a passion for the hands-on craft of building. You proactively take ownership of problems and drive solutions from concept to completion – comfortable making decisions, navigating ambiguity, actively constructing prototypes or production features, and ultimately motivated by delivering tangible value.

• Product-Oriented Mindset: You are driven to understand the "why" behind the features you build and are focused on delivering tangible value to end-users. You can translate customer needs into technical solutions.

• Cloud Conviction & Mission Alignment: Shares a belief in the transformative power of cloud and AI technology and is motivated by our mission to enhance its efficiency and sustainability.

• Experience Level: You have a demonstrated track record of designing, building, and deploying non-trivial software systems and features, showing increasing levels of autonomy and technical depth. We focus and compensate based on capability, not on years in role.

The cherry on top

We're looking for great engineers who are eager to learn and contribute. The list below includes skills and experiences that could be helpful for this role. Please don’t be discouraged if you don’t meet every point below! We encourage you to apply even if you don't have experience in these specific areas:

• Cloud Platforms: Working directly with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially understanding their billing models, cost structures, and APIs.

• UX: Creating intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces to complex systems. AI user flow experiences a big plus.

• Frontend Development: Develop user interfaces with modern frameworks, especially Next.js or React.

• AI/ML Concepts: Practical experience or strong conceptual understanding of machine learning, large language models (LLMs), or agentic AI systems.

• Infrastructure & DevOps: Cloud-native infrastructure tooling, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), or Infrastructure as Code practices (e.g., Terraform).

• Data Engineering: Designing or building data pipelines, working with large datasets, or using relevant data processing tools.

• Relevant Domains: Deep understanding of FinOps principles and awareness of the practical challenges enterprises face in areas like cost visibility, accurate allocation, forecasting, optimisation, and fostering a cost-conscious engineering culture.

What you can expect

• A competitive salary

• Equity in the business

• Lots of variety and learning opportunities

• Experienced mentors

How to Apply

Excited to join Optimaze? Send us your CV and a short note on why you’d be a great fit at careers@optimazehq.com.