Staff Software Engineer

Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.

With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.

Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!

About the Attentive Team

Have you ever received text message marketing from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that effective text message marketing is by far the highest ROI marketing channel? And did you know that customers are increasingly preferring to interact with brands through text? That is what we do at Attentive. We help the world’s largest brands interact with their clients at the right time and with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages per day, approaching 100 billion per year.

We’re building big things! Check out our tech blog here: https://tech.attentive.com/

About the Role

Our Engineering team creates innovative product experiences that power personalized marketing at massive scale. We develop cutting-edge applications and systems that process 100s of billions of messages and events per year, enabling marketers to connect effectively with hundreds of millions of consumers. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to work with some of the world’s most talented engineers in a high-performance and high-impact culture.

You will collaborate with talented engineers, product managers, and designers to create innovative applications that empower marketers to meaningfully connect with consumers. As a Staff Software Engineer in our NYC-based product organization, you’ll have the opportunity to join one of two groups shaping the future of messaging:

In our Core Channels group, you will work to shape the future of personalized marketing by building scalable backend systems for our customer-facing messaging products. Your work will directly influence the delivery of billions of messages, enhancing consumer experiences and driving success for leading global brands.

In our Customer Growth group, you will build systems that personalize the journeys of end users across nearly a billion page views daily. You will work with a cross-functional team to build AI products that enable marketers to acquire subscribers and deliver revenue growth for their businesses.

What You'll Accomplish

• You understand how to negotiate with Product Management to meet the user’s needs without sacrificing quality or accruing tech debt
• You deeply loathe regressions and take proactive steps to protect against them through a variety of testing techniques
• You are constantly improving the quality of the project you are working on, both via code contributions as well as long-term advocacy for larger-scale changes
• Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, fellow developers, and internal stakeholders to turn business goals into achievable technical roadmaps

Your Expertise

• You have worked professionally with web technologies for 8+ years
• You have development experience with either Java, Python or Go
• You have development experience with relational and non-relational databases 
• You have development experience with streaming technologies
• You have experience architecting applications for high scale
• You have a proven track record of building applications that maintain a high bar of quality
• You are an empathetic communicator who can work seamlessly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are adept at using business goals to turn that ambiguity into clear deliverables
• You are excited by new technologies but are conscious of choosing them for the right reasons

What We Use

• Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s EKS
• Infrastructure tooling includes Istio, Datadog, Terraform, CloudFlare, and Helm
• Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Kinesis, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
• Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
• Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, lots of data and built with Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace 🤗, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas

You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.

For US based applicants:

- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $184,000 - $250,000 annually + equity + benefits

- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location

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Attentive Company Values

Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose

Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions

Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success

Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success

Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.

If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.

At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.