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Principal Software Engineer, Search Optimization
AttentiveUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Dec 2024
💰 $285,000/yr($193,800/yr – $285,000/yr)
About the role
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!
Who we areOur Engineering team creates innovative product experiences that power personalized marketing at massive scale. We develop cutting-edge applications and systems that process 100s of billions of messages and events per year, enabling marketers to connect effectively with hundreds of millions of consumers. 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.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of distributed data applications and contributing towards the betterment of engineering culture at Attentive. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to create our high-impact search platform, delivering personalized experiences for our clients and their customers. Your role will also include mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence, and contributing to strategic planning for the engineering department.
This team is building the search platform that empowers our clients to curate audience segments, which Attentive uses across the platform to personalize content. By delivering more relevant and engaging messages, this drives higher performance for our clients and better experiences for their customers.
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!
Who we areOur Engineering team creates innovative product experiences that power personalized marketing at massive scale. We develop cutting-edge applications and systems that process 100s of billions of messages and events per year, enabling marketers to connect effectively with hundreds of millions of consumers. 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.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of distributed data applications and contributing towards the betterment of engineering culture at Attentive. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to create our high-impact search platform, delivering personalized experiences for our clients and their customers. Your role will also include mentoring engineers, driving technical excellence, and contributing to strategic planning for the engineering department.
This team is building the search platform that empowers our clients to curate audience segments, which Attentive uses across the platform to personalize content. By delivering more relevant and engaging messages, this drives higher performance for our clients and better experiences for their customers.
Why Attentive needs you
- Anticipate and advocate for the future of the Attentive platform, partnering with peers to proactively design solutions
- Be the technical connector across engineering, product, and design to ensure we deliver high quality software, and innovative, impactful products
- Contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives, including process improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and system enhancements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, ensuring growth and adherence to best practices
- Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
- Reduce the complexity of projects in order to get more done with less work
About you
- 10+ years experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput distributed systems
- You have expertise developing with Java, Python, or Go and strong understanding of object-oriented design, algorithms, and optimization
- You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage with relational and non-relational databases
- You have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale, maintaining secure reliable infrastructure, and setting a high bar for quality
- You are excited by the big, hard problems and look forward to identifying the areas of greatest need and creating plans to improve them
- You are an empathetic communicator who can work seamlessly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and are adept at using business goals to turn that ambiguity into clear deliverables
Our scale
- 8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages
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