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 help brands 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 GUESS, Urban Outfitters, and Steve Madden, 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!

Who we are

Our engineering department consists of 200+ people across multiple teams, such as application development, infrastructure, data platform, machine learning, and security. We believe our company will win in the long run through product innovation. To get there, we obsess over iteratively delivering customer value through rapid prototyping and data-driven decision-making.

We’re looking for a self-motivated, highly driven Senior Software Engineer to bolster our Integrations Engineering team. Our team is focused on building a platform to integrate with Attentive’s top partners to support processing 50,000 customer events and 100,000 webhooks per second.

In this role you’ll design and implement innovative, high availability, high volume event processing systems to ingest first-party data and drive forward-looking solutions to track user behavior with appropriate privacy, data quality and compliance. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the rate at which we can ship data collection features and help keep Attentive at the forefront of effective data collection in a rapidly evolving, privacy-focused landscape.

Why Attentive needs you

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

About you

You have worked professionally with web technologies for 5+ years
You have development experience with either Java, Python or Go
You have development experience with databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
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 excited by new technologies but are conscious of choosing them for the right reasons

Our scale

8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022
We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per day
Our production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ services
Our streaming services process over 80 billion events per month

What we use

We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, 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

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 $136,000 - $220,000 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.

Senior Software Engineer

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