Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Attentive is an AI marketing platform that redefines the way brands and people connect. The Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team will lead the technical strategy for the AI-assisted developer platform and improve engineering productivity systems across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Attentive’s AI-assisted developer experience platform, including context systems, orchestration layers, and developer tooling integrations
• Lead architecture decisions and author RFCs/ADRs that shape developer infrastructure and platform standards across the engineering organization
• Build and evolve systems that improve developer productivity, code quality, and engineering velocity across a large-scale monorepo environment
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and usability of local development environments, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling
• Partner directly with engineers and teams across the organization to identify bottlenecks, gather feedback, and drive adoption of new tooling and platform capabilities
• Own and evolve internal CLI tooling and service scaffolding systems that standardize engineering workflows and improve service discoverability
• Mentor engineers on technical design, architecture, documentation, and platform engineering best practices
• Lead cross-functional collaboration around engineering standards, developer workflows, and AI-assisted development practices

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building and operating large-scale developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or internal engineering productivity tooling
• 4+ years of experience working with build systems and continuous integration platforms such as Gradle, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bazel, Buildkite, or similar technologies
• 4+ years of experience designing and scaling developer infrastructure within large monorepo or distributed service environments
• Proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience building systems in Java and/or Python
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling, coding agents, context systems, MCP integrations, or related developer AI workflows
• Strong architectural and systems design skills, including experience authoring RFCs, ADRs, and cross-team technical proposals
• Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and independently define technical roadmaps and investment priorities
• Experience driving adoption of platform initiatives across multiple teams and engineering organizations
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders across varying technical domains
• Passion for developer productivity, platform ergonomics, and building systems that scale both technically and organizationally