Key skills
JavaPythonGoObject Oriented ProgrammingCode ReviewsAutomated TestingContinuous IntegrationService-Oriented ArchitectureRESTful Web ServicesSOAP-based ServicesEnterprise Service BusDistributed SystemsAWSCloud InfrastructureDynamoDBPostgreSQLSnowflakeRedisKafkaPulsarDevOpsDockerKubernetesReactTypescriptTypeScriptAIMLAnalyticsService BusRESTful
About this role
Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. The Staff Software Engineer, Backend will develop and maintain scalable backend and data systems that power personalized messaging decisions across millions of subscribers, collaborating with data scientists and ML engineers to enhance performance and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain scalable backend and data systems that power personalized messaging decisions across millions of subscribers
- Partner with data scientists and ML engineers to produce models for send-time optimization and subscriber engagement propensity
- Optimize real-time and batch pipelines for performance, reliability, and operational robustness at scale
- Improve feedback loops and experimentation frameworks to continuously enhance personalization performance
- Drive engineering best practices in large-scale distributed systems, experimentation, and highscale personalization infrastructure
- Improve code quality through code reviews, testing, and advocating for best practices
- Contribute to and help shape technical decisions and stay current with emerging technologies to enhance our products
- Participate in on-call and production support for multiple service domains, triaging and resolving incidents and customer-facing issues
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and analytics to ship impactful, data driven features
- Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus 7 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer or any occupation, job title, position performing backend software development and building distributed systems
- 7 years of professional experience performing software development using Java, Python, and Go
- 7 years of professional experience performing object oriented programming (including designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance applications) while adhering to established quality standards (including code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration practices)
- 7 years of professional experience collaborating with crossfunctional teams (including product, analytics, and engineering) to deliver data-driven software solutions
- 7 years of professional experience designing, developing, and supporting service-oriented architecture (SOA) (including RESTful web services, SOAP-based services, and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)) and distributed systems (including AWS services and cloud infrastructure)
- 7 years of professional experience utilizing databases and data platforms (including DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Redis) in conjunction with messaging and streaming systems (including Kafka and Pulsar)
- 5 years of professional experience performing DevOps practices and utilizing related tools (including Docker and Kubernetes) to support deployment, scalability, and system reliability
- 3 years of professional experience utilizing front-end engineering technologies (including React and Typescript) to support full-stack integration