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 a text message from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that text message marketing delivers the highest ROI of any marketing channel? And that more customers than ever prefer to connect with brands via text? That is what we do at Attentive. We empower the world’s leading brands to engage with their customers at the right moment, with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages every day, approaching 100 billion annually.

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

About the Role

Our Search Platform team is the backbone of Attentive’s data infrastructure, processing, storing, and optimizing data at massive scale and speed. We handle billions of events from over 100 million customers daily, enabling near-real-time data insights and AI-driven capabilities through our Data, Optimization, and ML Platforms. 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.

What You’ll Accomplish

Architect high-throughput solutions that power our most critical operations, ensuring scalability and efficiency
Expand and enhance our self-service platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to fuel our AI, ML, and analytics goals
Tackle complex distributed data challenges, streamline system integrations, and uphold high standards of quality and governance
Champion cutting-edge technologies, keeping our platform at the forefront of industry advancements and enabling strategic outcomes
Unify data from diverse systems, paving the way for experimentation and innovation while empowering teams with intuitive tools and frameworks

Your Expertise

Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput scalable systems
In-depth knowledge of high throughput processing technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink and/or Kafka
Proficiency in Java and strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and optimization
You have development experience integrating and running tools such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks Lakehouse, AWS Athena, Apache Trino, or Presto
You’ve experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or Hudi
You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC.
You have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale and maintaining infrastructure as code via Terraform
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 standard base salary range for this position is $144,840 - $210,000 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.

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