Attentive

Staff Software Engineer, User Profile

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3 months ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and architecture for high-scale systems and APIs responsible for user-profile ingestion, processing, storage, and serving.
  • Lead cross-team engineering initiatives spanning APIs, streaming infrastructure, data processing, and integrations.
  • Design and evolve platform capabilities supporting user-profile data, subscription lifecycle management, and new data-source integrations.
  • Drive architectural investments in scalability, reliability, data quality, observability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Partner with product, data, and ML teams on segmentation, personalization, revenue attribution, behavioral analytics, and machine-learning capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, architectural direction, and engineering standards while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating backend or distributed systems at scale.
  • A track record of technical leadership on complex, multi-team initiatives from problem definition through production operation.
  • Deep experience with high-scale data ingestion, processing, and streaming architectures handling large volumes of high-cardinality data.
  • Strong programming and software-design skills in Java or similar backend languages, with distributed-systems expertise in scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
  • Demonstrated ability to make and communicate high-impact architectural decisions and balance immediate product needs with long-term platform health.
  • Strong communication, influence, and mentorship skills, including the ability to align teams around technical strategy without formal authority.

Benefits

  • Competitive perks and benefits, including health and wellness benefits and equity.
  • Full-time position with a US base salary range of $180,000-$230,000 annually for US-based applicants.
  • Distributed global workforce with employee hubs in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Sydney.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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