engineering
Posted 6 days agoStaff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
at attentive
United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical strategy for Attentive’s AI-assisted developer
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Success requires strong technical judgment, architectural leadership, and the ability to influence engineering practices at scale through both technology and collaboration.
- experience working with build systems and continuous integration platforms such as Gradle, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bazel, Buildkite, or similar technologies 4+ years of
- Proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on
- experience building systems in Java and/or Python
- experience with AI-assisted development tooling, coding agents, context systems, MCP integrations, or related developer AI workflows
- 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
- 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
Experience
- 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
- 1+ years of hands-on
Benefits
- You'll get competitive perks and
- benefits , from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
- 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 #LI-CM1
Additional details
- We’re the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships.
- 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
- 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.
- Strong architectural and systems design skills, including
- experience authoring RFCs, ADRs, and cross-team technical proposals
- Passion for developer productivity, platform ergonomics, and building systems that scale both technically and organizationally What We Use
- 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
- Attentive Company Values Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success Learn more about AWAKE , Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups. If you do not meet all the