Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Attentive · United States
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About the role
Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. We’re the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships. By unifying SMS, RCS, email, and push notifications, our AI-powered personalization engine delivers bespoke experiences that drive performance, revenue, and loyalty through real-time behavioral insights.
Recognized as the #1 provider in SMS Marketing by G2, Attentive partners with more than 8,000 customers across 70+ industries. Leading global brands like Crate and Barrel, Urban Outfitters, and Carter’s work with us to enable billions of interactions that power tens of billions in revenue for our customers.
With a distributed global workforce and employee hubs in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Sydney, Attentive’s team has been consistently recognized for its performance and culture. We’re proud to be included in Deloitte’s Fast 500 (four years running!), LinkedIn’s Top Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100 (five years running!), Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index!
About the Role
Attentive’s Developer Experience team owns the infrastructure and tooling that 200+ engineers use every day to build and ship software across our Java/Spring Boot Gradle monorepo running on AWS. The team’s charter spans CI/CD, local development tooling, service scaffolding and conventions, CLI tooling, test infrastructure, and the AI integration layer that powers modern software development workflows.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you’ll serve as the technical leader for Attentive’s AI-assisted developer platform and foundational engineering productivity systems. This role sits at the intersection of developer infrastructure, platform engineering, and AI tooling, with responsibility for shaping how engineers across the company build, test, and ship software. You’ll partner closely with engineers across the organization to identify friction points, drive adoption of new workflows, and define the future of developer productivity at Attentive.
This is a highly cross-functional role with significant organizational visibility. Success requires strong technical judgment, architectural leadership, and the ability to influence engineering practices at scale through both technology and collaboration.
What You’ll Accomplish
- 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
Your Expertise
- 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
What We Use
- Our engineering organization primarily builds in a Java / Spring Boot Gradle monorepo running on AWS
- Our CI/CD infrastructure is powered by CircleCI and GitHub Actions, alongside internal orchestration layers for parallel test execution and distributed build workflows
- Our developer tooling ecosystem is primarily built in TypeScript and includes internal CLI tooling, service scaffolding, deployment tooling, troubleshooting utilities, and local development infrastructure
- Our AI-assisted developer platform includes coding agents, context systems, MCP integrations, orchestration tooling, AI-powered PR review workflows, and guardrails designed to make AI-assisted development reliable at scale
- Our data and test infrastructure leverages Python-based tooling alongside technologies and patterns such as Snowflake, Meltano/Singer pipelines, deterministic ID transformation, PII scrubbing, and referential integrity preservation
- Our local development and testing systems are designed to shift testing left, enabling engineers to work against production-like environments and datasets directly from their local workflows
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $240,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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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. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.