About Attentive: Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for leading brands, designed to optimize message performance through 1:1 SMS and email interactions. Infusing intelligence at every stage of the consumer's purchasing journey, Attentive empowers businesses to achieve hyper-personalized communication with their customers on a large scale. Leveraging AI-powered tools, a mobile-first approach, two-way conversations, and enterprise-grade technology, Attentive drives billions in online revenue for brands around the globe. Trusted by over 8,000 leading brands such as CB2, GUESS, Urban Outfitters, and Pura Vida, Attentive is the go-to solution for delivering powerful commerce experiences for consumers with the brands they love.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by , and all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
Who we areOur engineering department consists of 200+ people across multiple teams, such as application development, infrastructure, data platform, machine learning, and security. We believe our company will win in the long run through product innovation. To get there, we obsess over iteratively delivering customer value through rapid prototyping and data-driven decision-making. 
We’re looking for a self-motivated, highly driven Senior Software Engineer to bolster our Data Lake Platform team. Our team is focused on building the data platform to support data driven products and strategic outcomes for our customers. We do this by providing an extensible and flexible compute platform to access highly available, mission critical data sets. Why Attentive needs youYou are constantly improving the quality of the project you are working on, both via code contributions as well as long-term advocacy for larger-scale changesBuild amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performanceYou understand how to partner with Product Management and Design to meet the user’s needs without sacrificing quality or accruing tech debtDesign and build a self-service data platform that powers Attentive’s AI, ML, and analytics needsImplement best practices and standards for managing high volume of dataWork closely with engineering teams across Attentive, enabling them to experiment quickly and build new data productsDesign, develop, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency ETL pipelines About youYou have at least 5 years of development experience with either Java, Python or GoYou have development experience with data stores such as Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks Lakehouse, AWS Athena, Apache Trino, or PrestoYou have development experience with open source data processing technologies, such as Apache Flink, Spark, or AirflowYou’ve experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or HudiYou are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC. You have a proven track record of architecting applications at scale and maintaining infrastructure as code via TerraformYou are excited by new technologies but are conscious of choosing them for the right reasonsOur scale8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per dayOur production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ servicesOur streaming services process over 80 billion events per month What we useWe use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems.Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS.Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and PlaywrightFor US based applicants:- The standard base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $225,000 annually + equity + benefits- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location
Attentive Company ValuesDefault to Action - Move swiftly and with purposeBe One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s championsChampion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' successAct Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
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If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.