Attentive · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Messaging Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $205K/yr
5+ years expAttentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Streaming team, focusing on building scalable systems that deliver messaging services and influence real-time customer experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Email MarketingMarketing AutomationMessagingMobilePersonalization
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant systems that reliably deliver billions of messages weekly across SMS/RCS, email, and push channels
Anticipate the future needs of the messaging platform and proactively design solutions that support growth, new channels, and evolving compliance requirement
Serve as a technical connector across engineering, product, infrastructure, and partner teams to deliver high-quality, high-impact platform capabilities
Lead and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives, including platform reliability, infrastructure modernization, and operational excellence
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping engineers grow while reinforcing best practices around system design, testing, and production readiness
Improve system observability, performance, and resiliency, reducing operational risk and improving customer trust
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on distributed systems and high-throughput services
Experience building and operating backend systems in Java, Python, or Go, with a strong grasp of object-oriented design, APIs, and performance optimization
Deep understanding of messaging or event-driven architectures, including queues, streams, retries, idempotency, and failure handling
Proven track record of architecting systems at scale, maintaining secure and reliable production services, and setting a high bar for quality
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating business goals into clear technical plans and deliverables
Excited by large, complex problems and motivated to continuously improve foundational systems
Preferred
Front End development (Typescript/React) is an added bonus to help support tooling/observability
Benefits
Equity
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Company
Attentive
Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates businesses with AI powered SMS and e-mail marketing solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$863MKey Investors
CoatueSequoia CapitalBain Capital Ventures
2023-08-17Secondary Market
2021-03-24Series E· $470M
2020-09-23Series D· $230M
Leadership Team
Amit Jhawar
Chief Executive Officer
Todd Berman
CTO
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