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 or follow us on , (formerly Twitter), or .
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About the Attentive TeamHave you ever received a text message from your favorite brand with an incredible offer?  Did you know that text message marketing delivers the highest ROI of any marketing channel?  And that more customers than ever prefer to connect with brands via text?  That is what we do at Attentive.  We empower the world’s leading brands to engage with their customers at the right moment, with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages every day, approaching 100 billion annually.
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About the Role Our Search Platform team is the backbone of Attentive’s data infrastructure, processing, storing, and optimizing data at massive scale and speed. We handle billions of events from over 100 million customers daily, enabling near-real-time data insights and AI-driven capabilities through our Data, Optimization, and ML Platforms. 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 Senior 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.What You'll AccomplishAnticipate and advocate for the future of the Attentive platform, partnering with peers to proactively design solutionsBe the technical connector across engineering, product, and design to ensure we deliver high quality software, and innovative, impactful productsContribute to company-wide engineering initiatives, including process improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and system enhancementsProvide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, ensuring growth and adherence to best practicesMultiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team workReduce the complexity of projects in order to get more done with less workYour Expertise5+ years experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput distributed systemsYou have expertise developing with Java, Python, or Go and strong understanding of object-oriented design, algorithms, and optimizationYou are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage with relational and non-relational databasesYou 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 themYou are an empathetic communicator who can work seamlessly with technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou are comfortable with ambiguity and are adept at using business goals to turn that ambiguity into clear deliverablesWhat We UseOur infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s EKSInfrastructure tooling includes Istio, Datadog, Terraform, CloudFlare, and HelmOur backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Kinesis, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWSOur frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and PlaywrightOur automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, lots of data and built with Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace