Key skills
TypeScriptJavaAIKafkaAWSKubernetesDockerPostgreSQLRedisCommunicationDecision MakingCollaboration
About this role
Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of backend engineers to build scalable systems that support millions of daily interactions, guiding the technical direction and fostering engineering excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high performing engineering team responsible for building the backend systems powering onsite customer growth products
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for backend services, APIs, and data driven systems that power personalized onsite experiences at scale
- Partner closely with AI, data, and product teams to develop intelligent capabilities that improve performance and user experience
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems that support customer growth and real time user interactions
- Drive best practices in design discussions, code reviews, architecture decision making, and operational excellence
- Foster a learning oriented team culture that encourages collaboration, curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Own delivery of key product initiatives, balancing long term platform investments with near term business objectives
- Promote clean, maintainable, well tested code and high engineering standards across the team
Requirements:
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including at least two years managing or leading engineers
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, or Typescript
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, APIs, and microservice architectures at scale
- Hands on familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of databases, messaging systems, or streaming technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or Kafka
- Track record of building reliable, scalable, high throughput systems that support customer facing products
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop engineers, drive team alignment, and create an inclusive, collaborative engineering environment
- Strong communication and cross functional partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively with AI, data, product, and design teams
- A mindset rooted in ownership, curiosity, and a passion for building meaningful systems that drive measurable customer impact